About this course: Good system management not only requires managing the systems themselves, but requires careful planning to make systems interact with each other, auditing of the systems once the systems are built, and proactive maintenance of all systems. Organizations also rely on organizational policies, such as Acceptable Use Policies to bolster the technical aspect of system management. This course explores many of the behind the scenes requirements of good system management. The first half of the course covers how to build security into system management process and the organization policies necessary for any enterprise to follow. The latter half of the course focuses on auditing and maintenance of systems once they have been designed, and implemented. By the end of the course you should be able to design and construct organizational policies based on a set of requirements, audit a system based on those requirements, and make sure systems adhere technically to the set of requirements.
Who is this class for: This course is for those who want to understand and implement strong policies that are not necessarily technical in nature. This course will help those looking to design a disaster recovery plan or system assessment meet their criteria for auditing purposes.
Taught by: Greg Williams, Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
| Basic Info | Course 4 of 4 in the Computer Security and Systems Management Specialization |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
- Video: Introduction
- Reading: About this course
- Reading: Resources for building your own test environment
- Video: About the Instructor
- Video: Security at the forefront
- Video: Attack surfaces
- Video: Integrity
- Reading: Attack surface analysis
- Discussion Prompt: What is it that you want to get out of this course?
- Reading: Lecture Slides
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz - Week 1
- Video: Policies - Part 1: Organizational Policies
- Reading: Organizational Policies
- Video: Policies - Part 2: Technical Policies
- Reading: Technical Policies
- Video: Separation of Duties
- Video: Planning for Disaster
- Video: If you build it - they will get around it
- Discussion Prompt: What about policies?
- Reading: Lecture Slides
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz - Week 2
- Video: Strategies for Monitoring
- Video: Splunk
- Reading: Splunk Resources
- Video: Auditing
- Reading: Operational Intelligence
- Reading: Splunk - Working Smarter NIST
- Video: Syslog
- Discussion Prompt: Auditing your own systems
- Reading: Lecture Slides
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz - Week 3
- Video: Updating systems in the enterprise
- Video: When something goes wrong
- Video: Baselining and Assessment
- Reading: Backup Strategies
- Reading: The 3-2-1 Backup Strategy
- Discussion Prompt: What do you use to backup your data?
- Reading: Lecture Slides
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz - Week 4
- Video: Congratulations!
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