Information Security for IT Professionals

Some important Statistics are covered under this segment so as to understand the severity of the issue in hand.

Important facts are covered here by collecting data from very well known agencies and websites .

It provides you with the various sector in which Information Technology is used extensively so that the relevance of the IT security shoul be understood in these sectors.

We will discuss about the meaning of information security and also covers  about protecting information at various points of its life cycle.   

This segment talks about important points to be  kept in mind so that we can be more alert and keep on improving the information security continuously.

It includes discussion on different sources of of attacks, what could the motives of attacks which are related to attack types and the eventual consequences of such attacks to the organisations.

It describes the core  concept around which the  information security revolves and the concept of confidentiality  .  Also confidentiality is crucial to which industries or sectors.

This segment talks about Definition of Integrity, reasons of loss of integrity and measures to protect the integrity.

This segment talks about Definition of availability,factors affecting availability and measures to assure availability.

It defines  Information Security and Cyber Security. Also it compares and contrast between the two.

It defines and explains different terminologies that are used in the world of Information security so that we are on the same page and understand it in a context when such terms are referred or used.

It briefs about the meaning and importance of security teams that are used by organisations to safeguard the resources. 

It talks about the Misconceptions and fallacies about information security from  Management as  well as generic aspect.

It talks about the Misconceptions and fallacies about information security from  Technical  perspective.

It provides quotes from prominent personalities from IT industry that helps to understand the information security issue in the right perspective.

It talks about the systematic procedural approach to hacking that is adopted worldwide for successful attacks and breaches.

It introduces the concept , methods and tools of reconnaissance phase.

It introduces the concept , methods and tools of Scanning phase.

It introduces the concept , methods and tools of "Gaining Access" phase.

It introduces the concept , methods and tools of "Maintaining Access" phase.

It introduces the concept , methods and tools of "Covering Tracks" phase.

This segment discusses the types of technical vulnerabilities that leads to gaining access , compromise of systems and also making systems unusable.

It discusses what is Vulnerability Management and how the vulnerabilities are contend and the ways to address the  issues occurring due to vulnerabilities.

This segment discusses various types of threats whether  technical or otherwise so that we are aware of types of threats and can protect the resources from such threats.

It discusses multiple  types of attacks that are technical in nature and could be executed according to the target.

It discusses about various methods to exploit the infrastructure and even the human behaviour.

It is one of the most important topic as many of the serious attacks or compromise starts with phishing emails that lure employees and individual fall prey to.This generally an entry point to organisation.

Just knowing about the attacks is not sufficient and needs to have real world scenarios are more relevant to understand the seriousness of the issue and damage caused by such incidences are equally important . Here we will cover the major attacks that  took place in the real world.

We can keep our organisation and our resources safe and secure only when we can keep our resources sanitised and secure. Here we will cover the point that will help us to keep our resources safe so that we do not become a pivot for attack on our organization.

Information Security is dependent on the controls that are in place to protect the information resources. Here we will have look at those different security controls.

We will see what are the  different controls that can  bring changes in work procedures and are relevant to people working in organisation than technical measures

Organisation's primarily dependent on technical measures and implementation and also as a fall back mechanism in case of any other type of failure and hence it is important to understand it.

This could be often an overlooked aspect as far as information security aspect is concerned and hence needs proper attention to be paid.

Here we will have a look at the controls , their types and the relations between in them to get a holistic view.