About this course: Computer attacks and data breaches are inevitable. It seems like every day a data breach occurs and the victims of the data breach suffer. Their information is stolen or posted online. The company’s or businesses who had the breach go on, learn a little from the attack, and just give credit monitoring out as if nothing happened. What if you could help prevent a data breach in your organization? This is the third course in the Practical Computer Security specialization. This course looks at detection and mitigation of threats and attack vectors and discusses how to use tools and principles to protect information. By the end of the course you should be able to make suggestions on what type of detection and mitigation strategy is right for your systems or business given the known threats and attack vectors. You should be able to discuss what features you want in a firewall, or how cash registers or sensitive data systems should be secured. The project at the end of the course will allow you to apply what you have learned to argue what type of detection and mitigation strategies should have been employed by companies and businesses that have suffered a data breach.
Who is this class for: This course is for anyone who has data they need to protect. You could be a CEO of a company that wants to understand how your employees are protecting your data. You could be a systems administrator that is stuck wondering which threat detection method is best for your systems. You could be a tier 1 help desk technician looking to understand how mitigation strategies work to move up to tier 2 or tier 3 support. This course will help you at any skill level understand how to better protect your data and systems from a practical, business perspective.
Taught by: Greg Williams, Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
| Basic Info | Course 3 of 4 in the Cybersecurity for Business Specialization |
| Level | Beginner |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
- Video: Introduction
- Reading: About this course
- Video: About the Instructor
- Video: Firewall basics
- Video: Advanced firewalls
- Video: Types of firewall configurations
- Reading: Lecture Slides
- Discussion Prompt: Stop blaming the firewall!
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz - Week 1
- Video: Detection Methods
- Video: Intrusion Detection Systems
- Reading: Intrusion Detection Readings
- Video: Intrusion Prevention Systems
- Reading: Honeypots
- Reading: Lecture Slides
- Discussion Prompt: Intrusion Detection and Prevention
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz - Week 2
- Video: Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware
- Video: Snort
- Video: HIDs and HIPs
- Video: Splunk
- Reading: Splunk and Security
- Reading: Understanding IPS vs. IDS
- Reading: Lecture Slides
- Discussion Prompt: What do you use?
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz - Week 3
- Video: Attacks are inevitable - Prepare
- Video: Before the Attack
- Reading: The Incident Handlers Handbook
- Video: During the Attack
- Video: After the Attack
- Reading: Case Study - The Target Breach
- Discussion Prompt: What do you think?
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz - Week 4
- Video: How data breaches are exposed
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