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  • In today's highly connected world, having an understanding of cybersecurity concepts is increasingly important. Business professionals interested in understanding the risk cybersecurity threats pose to their business, look no further! The Google Cybersecurity Action Team: Cybersecurity Essentials course provides an introduction to cybersecurity terminology, principles, and concepts. Throughout the course, you will cover six security domains, and business continuity and disaster response planning topics. The course includes a series of instructor-led demonstrations to provide real-life examples of cybersecurity tasks in action.

Google Cybersecurity Action Team: Cybersecurity Essentials
 at 
Coursera 
Curriculum

Introduction to Cybersecurity

Course Introduction

Module Objectives

Define Cybersecurity

Inspect the CIA Triad

Defend with Security Controls

Control Types Quiz

Reasons for Strong Defenses

Identify Assets To Protect

End User Devices

Match the Terms

Module Summary

Laws, Policies, and Frameworks

Module Objectives

GRC In the Organization

Cybersecurity Roles and Groups

Managing Risk

Match the Terms

Commonly Used Frameworks and Standards

Laws Policies Frameworks Quiz

Module Summary

Threats, Attacks, and Vulnerabilities

Module Objectives

Examining the Elements Of Risk

Demo Using CVE and CWE

Common Vulnerability Scoring System

Lab: Using CVSS to Score a Vulnerability

Identifying Threat Actors

Match the Terms

Inspecting Types Of Attacks

Demo SQL Injection In Action

Cross-site Scripting

Demo Cross-site Scripting in Action

Client-side Attacks

Demo Sniffing Cleartext Credentials with Wireshark

Other Network Attacks

Social Engineering

Threats Attacks and Vulnerabilities Quiz

Module Summary

Cybersecurity Defenses

Module Objectives

Securing the Organization

Authenticating and Authorizing Access

User Security Training

Protecting the Endpoints

Match the Terms

Defending Networks

Lab: Zero Trust in Action

Implementing Secure Applications

Securing the Cloud

Securing Data with Cryptography

Demo Hashing and Collisions

Encryption

Demo Symmetric Key Encryption Using Cryptool

Public Key Encryption

Lab: Asymmetric Encryption to Sign and Verify Data

Cybersecurity Defenses Quiz

Module Summary

Ensuring Organization Security

Module Objectives

Managing Ongoing Risk

Performing Security Assessments

Demo Port Scanning Using Nmap

Vulnerability Scanners

Demo Web Application Scanning Using Vega

Vulnerability Management Lifecycle

Match the Terms

Utilizing Threat Models and Tools

Lab: Exploring ATT&CK from MITRE

Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation

Ensuring Organization Security Quiz

Module Summary

Summary

Course Summary

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    May 25, 2024
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