cyber security fundamentals

Explore hacker categories from white hat to nation-sponsored actors, including gray, blue, red hats, script kiddies, green hats, hacktivists, and insiders, with examples like DDoS and social engineering.

Explore the five phases of the cyber security kill chain—reconnaissance, compromising the system, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and covering tracks—plus external reconnaissance, social engineering, phishing, and network scanning with Nmap.

Explore main malware types—virus, worm, Trojan, spyware, ransomware, and bot or zombie machines—and how viruses replicate, worms spread via networks, and Trojans provide backdoors.

Explore cyber security standards and laws for red team and blue team professionals, including ISO 27001, NIST CSF and RMF, PCI DSS, and global laws across the US, EU, and Australia.

Learn about the PCI-DSS, the payment card industry data security standard, its four compliance levels, and how restricting and monitoring cardholder data protects customers and prevents online fraud.

Examine how cyber security laws shape global regulation, with examples from the US, the EU, and Australia, focusing on domestic security requirements, national defense, and criminalization of cyber activity.

Explore cyber security laws across the United States, European Union, and Australia, including critical infrastructure standards, foreign investment reviews, data privacy, and criminalization of cyber activity.