Cyber Security For Beginners (CYBERSEC101)

Explore cybersecurity core concepts in this first section, focusing on the CIA triad: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Build foundational knowledge essential for understanding cybersecurity.

Learn to assess information security risk, balancing threats and vulnerabilities to protect confidentiality, integrity, and availability; reduce likelihood and impact with controls, least privilege, and continuity planning.

Explore how policies and standard operating procedures shape behavior and compliance, covering acceptable use policies, mandatory vacations, separation of duties, onboarding and offboarding, NDAs, and the clean desk policy.

Explore the spectrum of malware types, from viruses and worms to logic bombs, backdoors, trojans, ransomware, spyware, and botnets, and learn how they covertly compromise systems.

Learn how antivirus and anti-malware software protect against attacks by staying updated and using signature-based, heuristic-based, and file integrity checks, plus data execution prevention and spam filters.

Expose how attackers use impersonation, tailgating, dumpster diving, spam, phishing, spear fishing, waterhole attacks, and spoofing caller IDs to trick users, with antivirus and training defending them.

Explore continuity of operations by selecting recovery sites: hot sites run 24/7 and stay up to date, warm sites become operational after data provisioning, and cold sites offer cheaper options.