Course Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:  

  1. Discuss the foundational concepts of cybersecurity principles. 
  2. Recognize foundational security concepts of information assurance. 
  3. Define risk management terminology and summarize the process. 
  4. Relate risk management to personal or professional practices. 
  5. Classify types of security controls. 
  6. Distinguish between policies, procedures, standards, regulations and laws. 
  7. Demonstrate the relationship among governance elements. 
  8. Analyze appropriate outcomes according to the canons of the ISC2 Code of Ethics when given examples. 
  9. Practice the terminology of and review security policies. 
  10. Explain how organizations respond to, recover from and continue to operate during unplanned disruptions. 
  11. Recall the terms and components of incident response. 
  12. Summarize the components of a business continuity plan. 
  13. Identify the components of disaster recovery. 
  14. Practice the terminology and review concepts of business continuity, disaster recovery and incident response. 
  15. Select access controls that are appropriate in a given scenario. 
  16. Relate access control concepts and processes to given scenarios. 
  17. Compare various physical access controls. 
  18. Describe logical access controls. 
  19. Practice the terminology and review concepts of access controls. 
  20. Explain the concepts of network security. 
  21. Recognize common networking terms and models. 
  22. Identify common protocols and ports and their secure counterparts. 
  23. Identify types of network (cyber) threats and attacks. 
  24. Discuss common tools used to identify and prevent threats. 
  25. Identify common data center terminology. 
  26. Recognize common cloud service terminology. 
  27. Identify secure network design terminology. 
  28. Practice the terminology and review concepts of network security. 
  29. Explain concepts of security operations. 
  30. Discuss data handling best practices. 
  31. Identify key concepts of logging and monitoring. 
  32. Summarize the different types of encryption and their common uses. 
  33. Describe the concepts of configuration management. 
  34. Explain the application of common security policies. 
  35. Discuss the importance of security awareness training. 
  36. Practice the terminology and review concepts of network operations.  

Cloud Security Management: Cloud Security Knowledge

You wll learn:

  •  to build high-performance, cost-optimized, resilient, secure and operationally efficient AWS architectures
  • to prepare for the SAA-C03 AWS Solutions Architect-Associate Certification exam