Cybersecurity Roles, Processes & Operating System Security

Skills Gained

What you can do upon completion of this course:

• Define IT security
• Explain the purpose of frameworks, baselines, and best practices in cybersecurity
• Discuss typical roles in an information security department
• Define security operation center (SOC)
• Define process in the context of business management and describe its attributes
• Describe standard process roles
• Explain what makes a process successful
• Discuss typical process performance metrics
• Summarize continual process improvement
• Define information technology infrastructure library (ITIL)
• Describe each phase of the ITIL lifecycle
• Describe key terms and characters from the Alice and Bob cryptography scenario
• Define confidentiality, integrity, and availability in the context of cybersecurity and discuss their important components
• Define authenticity and accountability in the context of cybersecurity
• Explain identification and AAA in the context of cybersecurity
• Identify the three types of authentication methods
• Discuss the types of access control and their subcategories
• Describe common access control methods
• Discuss access control best practices
• Identify examples of physical and logical access control methods
• Discuss types of monitoring and access control processes
• Summarize how to use the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) to discover the top ten web application vulnerabilities for a given year and how to address them
• Compare and contrast Windows- s two modes: user and kernel
• Define file system and hierarchical structure
• Contrast the NTFS and FAT file systems that Windows uses
• Describe the Windows directory structure
• Summarize how Windows handles the separation of 32-bit and 64-bit applications
• Describe various useful keyboard shortcuts applicable to Windows
• Discuss important characteristics of Linux
• Explain the relationship between Linux kernel and shell
• Describe Linux file system and directory structure
• Explain what happens at each Linux run level
• Recall basic Linux shell commands and the functions that they perform
• Describe Linux file and directory permission structure
• Explain how to use the Linux shell to change a file- s permissions and owner
• Install and run a Kali Linux virtual machine using VirtualBox
• Perform administrative tasks to strengthen security on Kali Linux
• Explain how to view system information, current activity, and log files in macOS
• Summarize the various security settings within macOS
• Discuss macOS recovery partition and the services that it offers
• Contrast virtualized and traditional environments
• Describe the roles of hosts, hypervisors, and virtual machines in a virtualized environment
• Summarize how organizations move from virtualized to cloud environments
• List the steps required to deploy services to the cloud
• Define cloud computing
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing
• Contrast the three cloud deployment models: public, private, and hybrid
• Summarize essential functions listed in the cloud computing reference model
• Contrast the three cloud service models: software as a service, platforms as a service, and infrastructure as a service
• Describe important components of cloud security
• Summarize the alignment between governance, service, and organization needed to achieve an effective cloud security strategy