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Security Fundamentals
In this series, you will expand your knowledge of threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities; security technologies and tools; security architecture and design, identity and access management, risk management, and cryptography.
RELATED TOPICS Threats,Security Architecture, Security Design, Identity Management Access Management, Risk Management, Cryptography
What you will learn
- How to analyze indicators of compromise and determine the type of malware
- How to compare and contrast types of attacks and explain threat actor types and attributes
- How to explain penetration testing and vulnerability scanning concepts
- How to explain the impact associated with types of vulnerabilities
- How to install and configure network components, both hardware and software-based, to support organizational security
- How to use appropriate software tools to assess the security posture of an organization
- How to troubleshoot common security issues
- How to analyze and interpret output from security technologies
- How to deploy mobile devices securely
- How to implement secure protocols
- How to explain use cases and purpose for frameworks, best practices and secure configuration guides
- How to implement secure network architecture concepts and secure systems design
- How to explain the importance of secure staging deployment concepts
- How to explain the security implications of embedded systems
- How to summarize secure application development and deployment concepts
- How to summarize cloud and virtualization concepts
- How to explain how resiliency and automation strategies reduce risk
- How to explain the importance of physical security controls
- How to compare and contrast identity and access management concepts
- How to install and configure identity and access services
- How to implement identity and access management controls and how to differentiate common account management practices
- How to explain the importance of policies, plans and procedures related to organizational security
- How to summarize business impact analysis concepts
- How to explain risk management processes and concepts
- How to follow incident response procedures
- How to summarize basic concepts of forensics
- How to explain disaster recovery and continuity of operation concepts
- How to compare and contrast various types of controls
- How to carry out data security and privacy practices
- How to compare and contrast basic concepts of cryptography and how to explain cryptography algorithms and their basic characteristics
- How to install and configure wireless security settings
- How to implement public key infrastructure
Pre-requisites
This path does not require any prior knowledge or experience.
Beginner
In this section, you will learn how to identify security threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, technologies, and tools.
Threats, Attacks, and Vulnerabilities for CompTIA Security+
Technologies and Tools for CompTIA Security+
Intermediate
This segment of the Path discusses security architecture and design while also exploring identity and access management.
Architecture and Design for CompTIA Security+
Identity and Access Management for CompTIA Security+
Advanced
This section encompasses the more advanced fundamentals topics, which include managing security risks, cryptography, and public key infrastructure (PKI).
Risk Management for CompTIA Security+
Cryptography and PKI for CompTIA Security+
2. Security for Hackers and Developers
Security for Hackers and Developers lays the foundation for anyone interested in creating secure software and systems, or anyone interested in hacking computer systems. Upon completion of this path, you will have learned how to discover, analyze, fix, as well as exploit vulnerabilities. Join on this cyber security learning journey, and help make your projects and networks safer.
Programming in Cyber Security!
Before we start a new semester, let’s look at the first semester of the study programme of Cyber Security from my perspective. Recently I’ve been getting a lot of questions related to the programming as such. People are mainly concerned whether they can study Cyber Security with a lack of programming knowledge.
For those who don’t know me, I graduated from Software Engineering and currently I am a 1st year MSc Cyber Security student and also working as an iOS Engineer in TalTech. I can say that I do programming on a daily basis and I hope that with this post I will answer to the most frequently asked question: “can I study without programming skills?”
There is a short and a long answer. If I need to start with the short answer, that’s easy: YES! But for the long answer, please stick with me.
Programming is a skill that can be acquired easily. Yes, really. There are tons of resources for anyone who wants to learn programming. There are a lot of websites that are full of content and even sometimes 100% free.
Yes, you can survive in the cyber security field without programming. But, you shouldn’t. If you ask why, let me put down some points for you:
- Reading source code is important: in most of the cases, you need to find a needle in the haystack and sometimes you need to find that needle in the source code. You will be mainly dealing with software vulnerabilities and learning programming will increase your code reading ability and also give you more aspects to search for.
- Automating small things will save tons of time: programming is a life-long skill. You can use it nearly everywhere. Of course, there are already tons of products and software to use that would save us much time. Instead of a regular programming flow, if you think out of the box, you will see more possibilities where you can make small automating scripts and gain the advantage of programming. For example, you can write your own script to select the courses at the beginning of the semester. Sounds cool, right?
- If there is no such thing for that job, why not to create your own: thanks to other engineers and developers all around the world, there are a lot of tools for us to use and test on systems according to our use cases. But let’s assume that we are dealing with a very weird edge case where no existing tool can be applied properly. With the help of programming that you learned and improved during the years, you can develop a tool or even an exploit on your own. Then other people around the world can use this particular tool or exploit that you have developed, which is amazing!
To sum up, you can survive without programming but you will still rather learn how to do it. Programming can be learned and will be a life-long skill for you. In addition to you studies in cyber security, it may open new ways or introduce your newer horizons.
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