Security Analyst

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This lesson is an introduction to the Security Analyst role and how that role fits into an organization.

This lesson provides the underlying philosophy and objectives for your work as an Analyst. Through real examples, you'll explore a variety of attack vectors and threat modeling strategies.

This lesson is a broad survey of the families of security controls and provides opportunities to work with some of the technical mechanisms used to prevent security challenges.

This lesson focuses on improving your organization's posture by applying control concepts to design infrastructure that is more resistant to intrusion.

In this lesson, you'll be introduced to what you'll be learning about in this course!

In this lesson, you will learn about internal threats, external threats, and the OWASP Top 10.

In this lesson, you will learn different mitigation strategies and the threats they mitigate.

In this lesson, you will use your new skills to create Threat Models for different threat scenarios.

Get your first look at vulnerability assessment and where you’ll go throughout this course.

Dive deeper into what vulnerabilities are, common types, and their relation to risk.

Learn how to perform vulnerability assessments and some of the tools to do so.

Determining the risks and impact to the business of the identified vulnerabilities, as well as considering how to mitigate them.

Finalize your vulnerability assessment with targeted summaries by audience and strategic guidance.

Find out why monitoring and logging is essential to cybersecurity, learn about the history of log monitoring, and get started with the virtual machine you'll be using in this course.

Discover how to uncover security incidents using an Intrusion Detection System. Create and analyze IDS rules and security log data.

Capture and analyze network traffic using tcpdump and Wireshark, and search security logs using Splunk, a powerful SIEM tool.

Find out about the process to remediate security incidents, and an important tool to handle incidents consistently: incident handling playbooks.

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