This course will be useful to cybersecurity practitioners who are preparing for or who currently perform job functions related to protecting information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. You will begin by identifying the importance of risk management and assessing and mitigating risk to the organization. You'll also analyze the threat landscape by classifying threats and identifying trends that affect the organization's security posture.
CFR: Risk and Threat Analysis
CFR: Risk and Threat Analysis
This course is part of CyberSec First Responder (Exam CFR-410) Specialization
Instructor: Bill Rosenthal
Access provided by Xavier School of Management, XLRI
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6 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
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What you'll learn
In this course, you will assess cybersecurity risks to the organization and analyze the threat landscape.
Skills you'll gain
- Security Management
- Trend Analysis
- Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
- Cybersecurity
- Risk Mitigation
- Risk Management Framework
- Network Security
- Information Systems Security
- Computer Security
- Cyber Risk
- Threat Detection
- Cyber Security Strategy
- Threat Modeling
- Risk Management
- Risk Analysis
- Technical Documentation
- Risk Appetite
- Cyber Threat Intelligence
- Security Strategy
- Threat Management
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Assessments
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Taught in English
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This course is part of the CyberSec First Responder (Exam CFR-410) Specialization
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As a security professional, you are familiar with the ways in which information is vulnerable to theft, destruction, alteration, and unavailability. But good security is not just a process of reacting to individual threats when they appear or closing holes when they are discovered—it's a process of understanding how your information, by its very nature and the ways in which it is used, is at risk of being compromised. When you understand the risks you face from a foundational level, you can better prepare yourself to reduce or eliminate the chances of a security incident occurring and the impact it will have on your information.
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Now that you have a foundational understanding of the importance of risk management, you're ready to begin meeting security problems head-on. You need to figure out just what and who it is you're up against as you defend your organization from harm. The threat landscape is huge, diverse, and most important of all, ever-changing. By analyzing the very nature of threats to your organization, you can obtain crucial knowledge to aid in the active defense of your computing and network environments.
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You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
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