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Practical Security: Simple Practices for Defending Your Systems - AI-Powered Course
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Practical Security: Simple Practices for Defending Your Systems
Learn about security techniques, e.g., patching, cryptography, and phishing prevention. Explore practices to make systems resistant to defend against attacks.
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It seems like hardly a week goes by without a high-profile computer breach. Why do these happen? How can you prevent them? This course doesn’t have all the answers, but it does outline practices that make life harder for attackers and that will help tide you over until you get a full-time security team in place.
In this course, you will learn 5 simple, yet effective, techniques for preventing attackers from getting into your system. These techniques are related to: patching, software vulnerabilities, cryptography, windows security, and phishing. Within each chapter you will learn the best practices for preventing vulnerabilities and how to make them more detectable.
This course is based on the Pragmatic Programmers’ book, Practical Security, and is aimed at developers, admins, team leads, architects, technology generalists, and all others who stand guard against the things that disrupt the network.
It seems like hardly a week goes by without a high-profile computer breach. Why do these happen? How can you prevent them? This ...Show More
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65 Lessons40 Quizzes
1.
Introduction
2 Lessons
Get familiar with core security practices and essential tools for defending your systems.
2.
Patching
14 Lessons
Unpack the core of efficient patching strategies to safeguard against software vulnerabilities.
IntroductionUpgrading Third-Party Libraries and SoftwareA Closer Look at PatchingLibrary InventoryDependency Management: PythonDependency Management: JavaScriptAutomating Vulnerability DetectionNetwork InventoryNmapOpenVASPatching WindowsFinding Published VulnerabilitiesTesting Your PatchesIf Patching Hurts, Do It More Often
3.
Vulnerabilities
20 Lessons
Examine software vulnerabilities, SQL injection, defensive coding, XSS, XSRF, and mitigating misconfigurations.
4.
Cryptography
15 Lessons
Grasp the fundamentals of using established cryptographic libraries and secure password management techniques.
5.
Windows
6 Lessons
Solve problems in Windows security, from user account management to password policies, Active Directory, and BitLocker.
6.
Phishing
8 Lessons
Focus on understanding phishing, its types, social and DNS-based defenses, and response strategies.
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