Cyber Security Training in Houston

Introduction to Cybersecurity 

• The evolution of Cybersecurity 

• Cybersecurity & situational awareness 

• The Cybersecurity skills gap

Difference between Information Security & Cybersecurity 

• Protecting digital assets 

Cybersecurity objectives 

• Confidentiality, integrity, & availability 

• Nonrepudiation

Cybersecurity Roles 

• Governance, risk management, & compliance 

• What does a Cybersecurity professional do? 

• Information Security roles 

• Board of Directors 

• Executive management 

• Senior Information security management 

• Cybersecurity practitioners 

Risk 

• Approaches to Cybersecurity 
• Key terms & definitions 
• Likelihood & impact 
• Approaches to risk 
• Third-party risk 
• Risk management

Common Attack Types & Vectors 

• Threat agents 
• Attack attributes 
• Generalized attack process 
• Non-adversarial threat events 
• Malware & attack types 

Policies & Procedures 

• Policy life cycle 
• Guidelines 
• Policy frameworks 
• Types of Information Security policies 
• Access control policy 
• Personnel Information Security policy 
• Security incident response policy 

Cybersecurity Controls 

• Identity management 
• Provisioning & de-provisioning 
• Authorization 
• Access control lists 
• Privileged user management 
• Change management 
• Configuration management 
• Patch management 

Overview of security architecture 

• The security perimeter 

• Interdependencies 

• Security architectures & frameworks 

• SABSA & the Zachman framework 

• The open group architecture framework (TOGAF)

The OSI model 

• TCP/IP 

Defense in Depth 

Firewalls 

• Firewall general features 

• Network firewall types 

• Packet filtering firewalls 

• Stateful inspection firewalls 

• Stateless vs. stateful 

• Examples of firewall implementations 

• Firewall issues 

• Firewall platforms 

Isolation & segmentation 

• VLANs 

• Security zones & DMZs 

Monitoring, Detection, and Logging 

• Ingress, egress, & data loss prevention (DLP) 

• Antivirus & anti-malware 

• Intrusion detection systems 

• IDS limitations 

• IDS policy 

• Intrusion prevention systems 

Cryptography Fundamentals 

• Key elements of cryptographic systems 

• Key systems 

Encryption Techniques 

• Symmetric (private) key encryption 

• Asymmetric (private) key encryption 

• Elliptical curve cryptography 

• Quantum cryptography 

• Advanced encryption standard 

• Digital signature 

• Virtual private network 

• Wireless network protections 

• Stored data 

• Public key infrastructure 

Encryption Applications 

• Applications of cryptographic systems

Process Controls – Risk Assessments 

• Attributes of risk 

• Risk response workflow 

• Risk analysis 

• Evaluating security controls 

• Risk assessment success criteria 

• Managing risk 

• Using the results of the risk assessment 

Process Controls – Vulnerability Management 

• Vulnerability management 

• Vulnerability scans 

• Vulnerability assessment 

• Remediation 

• Reporting & metrics 

Process Controls – Penetration Testing 

• Penetration testers

• Penetration testing phases  

Network Security 

• Network management 

• LAN/WAN security 

• Network risks 

• Wireless local area networks 

• Wired equivalent privacy & Wi-Fi protected access (WPA/WPA2) 

• Ports & protocols 

• Port numbers 

• Protocol numbers & assignment services 

• Virtual private networks 

• Remote access 

Operating System Security

• System/platform hardening 

• Modes of operations 

• File system permissions 

• Credentials & privileges 

• Command line knowledge 

• Logging & system monitoring 

• Virtualization 

• Specialized systems

Application Security 

• System development life cycle (SDLC) 

• Security within SDLC 

• Design requirements 

• Testing 

• Review process  

• Separation of development, testing, & production environments 

• OWASP top ten 

• Wireless application protocol (WAP)

Data Security 

• Data classification 

• Data owners 

• Data classification requirements 

• Database security 

Event vs. Incident 

• Events vs. incident 

• Types of incidents 

Security Incident Response 

• What is incident response? 

• Why do we need incident response? 

• Elements of an incident response plan 

• Security event management 

Investigations, Legal Holds, & Preservation 

• Investigations 

• Evidence preservation 

• Legal requirements 

Forensics 

• Data protection 

• Data acquisition 

• Imaging 

• Extraction 

• Interrogation 

• Ingestion/normalization 

• Reporting 

• Network traffic analysis 

• Log file analysis 

• Time lines 

• Anti-forensics 

Disaster recovery & business continuity plans 

• What is a disaster? 

• Business continuity & disaster recovery 

• Business impact analysis 

• Recovery time objectives (RTO) 

• Recover point objective (RPO) 

• IS business continuity planning 

• Recovery concepts 

• Backup procedures