Course Description
What You'll Learn
- Identify the threats organizations face that can lead to data breaches and unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, or destruction of information
- Explain the core information security principles of confidentiality, integrity, and availability
- Protect systems by addressing system vulnerabilities, applying defenses, and securing wireless networks
- Manage permissions and access using authentication, authorization, and accounting
- Apply cryptography and encryption to safeguard organizational information
- Develop security policies, plan disaster recovery and business continuity, and deliver user training
Key Takeaways
- Information Security (InfoSec) protects against unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, inspection, recording, or destruction of information within an organization.
- Many organizations around the world are vulnerable to data breaches.
- The course gives IT professionals an overview of the threats organizations face and ways to address these threats with policies and user training.
- Confidentiality, integrity, and availability form the foundation of information security.
- Defending an organization spans technical areas such as wireless networks, access permissions, authentication, cryptography, and disaster recovery and business continuity.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for IT professionals, giving them an overview of the threats organizations face and ways to address those threats with policies and user training.
What topics does the course cover?
It covers an introduction to information security; confidentiality, integrity, and availability; protecting systems; system vulnerabilities and defenses; wireless networks; permissions and access; authentication, authorization, and accounting; cryptography and encryption; disaster recovery and business continuity; and security policies and user training.
What is Information Security?
Information Security, also known as InfoSec, is the prevention of unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, inspection, recording, or destruction of information within an organization.
What skills will I gain from this course?
The course builds skills in information assurance, information security management, information systems security, and information technology security fundamentals, and relates to credentials such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional and GIAC Information Security Professional.
How does the course address security threats?
It presents the threats organizations face and explains ways to address these threats with policies and user training.
