Course Overview

This course will show you the most effective steps to prevent attacks and detect adversaries with actionable techniques that can be used as soon as you get back to work. You'll learn tips and tricks designed to help you win the battle against the wide range of cyber adversaries that want to harm your environment.

Is Cyber Security Essentials the right course for you?

STOP and ask yourself the following questions:

• Do you fully understand why some organisations become compromised and others do not?

• If there were compromised systems on your network, are you confident that you would be able to find them?

• Do you know the effectiveness of each security device and are you certain that they are all configured correctly?

• Are proper security metrics set up and communicated to your executives to drive security decisions?

Cyber security Essentials provides you with the information security knowledge needed to help you answer these questions for your environment, delivered in a boot camp-style format reinforced with hands-on labs.

You will learn:

To develop effective security metrics that provide a focused playbook that the IT department can implement, auditors can validate, and executives can understand

• To analyse the risk to your environment in order to drive the creation of a security road map that focuses on the right areas of security

• Practical tips and tricks that focus on addressing high-priority security problems within your organisation and doing the right things that lead to security solutions that work

• Why some organisations win and why some lose when it comes to security and, most importantly, how to be on the winning side

• The core areas of security and how to create a security program that is built on a foundation of Detection, Response, and Prevention