Cybersecurity Fundamentals

Course Schedule- Topics & Activities

Cybersecurity Introduction & Overview

Introduction to Cybersecurity
o The evolution of Cybersecurity
o Cybersecurity & situational awareness
o The Cybersecurity skills gap
Difference between Information Security & Cybersecurity
o Protecting digital assets
Cybersecurity objectives
o Confidentiality, integrity, & availability
o Nonrepudiation
Cybersecurity roles
o Governance, risk management, & compliance
o What does a Cybersecurity professional do?
o Information Security roles
o Board of Directors
o Executive management
o Senior Information security management
o Cybersecurity practitioners
Cybersecurity domains
o Cybersecurity concepts
o Security architecture principles
o Security of networks, systems, applications, & data
o Incident response
o Security implications & adoption of evolving technology

Cybersecurity Concepts

Risk
o Approaches to Cybersecurity
o Key terms & definitions
o Likelihood & impact
o Approaches to risk
o Third-party risk
o Risk management

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 Common attack types & vectors
o Threat agents
o Attack attributes
o Generalized attack process
o Nonadversarial threat events
o Malware & attack types
Policies & procedures
o Policy life cycle
o Guidelines
o Policy frameworks
o Types of Information Security policies
o Access control policy
o Personnel Information Security policy
o Security incident response policy
Cybersecurity controls
o Identity management
o Provisioning & de-provisioning
o Authorization
o Access control lists
o Privileged user management
o Change management
o Configuration management
o Patch management

Security Architecture Principles

Overview of security architecture

o The security perimeter
o Interdependencies
o Security architectures & frameworks
o SABSA & the Zachman framework
o The open group architecture framework (TOGAF)
The OSI model
o TCP/IP
Defense in Depth
Firewalls
o Firewall general features
o Network firewall types
o Packet filtering firewalls

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 o Stateful inspection firewalls
o Stateless vs. stateful
o Examples of firewall implementations
o Firewall issues
o Firewall platforms
Isolation & segmentation
o VLANs
o Security zones & DMZs
Monitoring, detection, and logging
o Ingress, egress, & data loss prevention (DLP)
o Antivirus & anti-malware
o Intrusion detection systems
o IDS limitations
o IDS policy
o Intrusion prevention systems
Cryptography Fundamentals
o Key elements of cryptographic systsms
o Key systems
Encryption techniques
o Symmetric (private) key encryption
o Asymmetric (private) key encryption
o Elliptical curve cryptography
o Quantum cryptography
o Advanced encryption standard
o Digital signature
o Virtual private network
o Wireless network protections
o Stored data
o Public key infrastructure
Encryption applications
o Applications of cryptographic systems

Security of Networks, Systems, Applications, & Data

Process controls risk assessments

o Attributes of risk
o Risk response workflow
o Risk analysis
o Evaluating security controls

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 o Risk assessment success criteria
o Managing risk
o Using the results of the risk assessment
Process controls vulnerability management
o Vulnerability management
o Vulnerability scans
o Vulnerability assessment
o Remediation
o Reporting & metrics
Process controls penetration testing
o Penetration testers
o Penetration testing phases
Network security
o Network management
o LAN/WAN security
o Network risks
o Wireless local area networks
o Wired equivalent privacy & Wi-Fi protected access (WPA/WPA2)
o Ports & protocols
o Port numbers
o Protocol numbers & assignment services
o Virtual private networks
o Remote access
Operating system security
o System/platform hardening
o Modes of operations
o File system permissions
o Credentials & privileges
o Command line knowledge
o Logging & system monitoring
o Virtualization
o Specialized systems
Application security
o System development life cycle (SDLC)
o Security within SDLC
o Design requirements
o Testing
o Review process

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 o Separation of development, testing, & production environments
o OWASP top ten
o Wireless application protocol (WAP)
Data security
o Data classification
o Data owners
o Data classification requirements
o Database security

Incident Response

Event vs. incident

o Events vs. incident
o Types of incidents
Security incident response
o What is incident response?
o Why do we need incident response?
o Elements of an incident response plan
o Security event management
Investigations, legal holds, & preservation
o Investigations
o Evidence preservation
o Legal requirements
Forensics
o Data protection
o Data acquisition
o Imaging
o Extraction
o Interrogation
o Ingestion/normalization
o Reporting
o Network traffic analysis
o Log file analysis
o Time lines
o Anti-forensics
Disaster recovery & business continuity plans
o What is a disaster?
o Business continuity & disaster recovery
o Business impact analysis

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 o Recovery time objectives (RTO)
o Recover point objective (RPO)
o IS business continuity planning
o Recovery concepts
o Backup procedures

Security Implications & Adoption of Evolving Technology

Current threat landscape

Advanced persistent threats (APTs)
o Evolution of the threat landscape
o Defining APTs
o APT characteristics
o APT targets
o Stages of an APT attack
Mobile technology vulnerabilities, threats, & risk
o Physical risk
o Organizational risk
o Technical risk
o Activity monitoring & data retrieval
o Unauthorized network connectivity
o Web view/user interface (UI) impersonation
o Sensitive data leakage
o Unsafe sensitive data storage
o Unsafe sensitive data transmission
o Drive-by vulnerabilities
Consumerization of IT & mobile devices
o Consumerization of IT
o BYOD
Cloud & digital collaboration
o Risk of cloud computing
o Web application risk
o Benefits of cloud computing

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