Cybersecurity Awareness: Cybersecurity Terminology

Course details

Do you want to play your part in keeping your company and its assets secure, but you’re not sure if you fully comprehend the security team’s terminology? Understanding the foundations of cybersecurity can help you create a truly secure environment both at work and in your personal life. In this course, instructor Lauren Zink takes you on a crash course for building your awareness of cybersecurity vocabulary, so you can be better equipped to secure your network, whether you’re at home, on the go, or on the job.

Discover core concepts in the cybersecurity field by exploring the relationship between people, processes, and technology, noting the variety of terminology in the constantly shifting security landscape, and building your skills along the way. Find out more about common threats and risks and what they mean to you, as Lauren breaks down the meaning of some of the most frequently used terms and demonstrates how they can be applied to create a more secure environment.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome to Cybersecurity Terminology 101

1. Defining Cybersecurity and People, Process, and Technology

02 - What is cybersecurity
03 - People, process, and technology

2. People

04 - Security awareness and leadership
05 - Red vs. blue vs. purple teams
06 - Who are the adversaries
07 - Understanding privacy

3. Process

08 - Understanding processes and documentation
09 - Technical controls

4. Technology

10 - Secure practices, terms, and exercises
11 - Network controls
12 - Advancements in technology

5. Threat Actors and Risks

13 - Threat actors and definitions
14 - Technical risks
15 - Threats that target the human element

Conclusion

16 - Apply cybersecurity terminology