Practical Cybersecurity for IT Professionals

Course details

Learn how to protect your network from cyberattacks through practical, hands-on demonstrations. In this course, Malcolm Shore shows how to use the latest tools to discourage and combat hackers, phishers, and snoops attempting to infiltrate your Windows and Linux systems. Learn what forms cyberattacks can take, as well as the two most common types of protection you can build into your system: Antivirus protection and firewalls. Then, learn how to scan your network for suspicious files, check what services are exposed on your systems, and identify vulnerabilities at the host level with Nessus scans. Malcolm also shows how to combat application-level threats, identify weak points in your web applications, and monitor packet-level activity on your network.

Concepts

Introduction

Understanding cybersecurity
What you should know
Disclaimer

Why Cybersecurity

A history of hackers
The cyber kill chain
Stuxnet and the kill chain
Common forms of cyberattack
Viruses, spyware, and adware
Cybercrime and ransomware
Emerging trends in cybersecurity

Antivirus

Introducing Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Detecting malware with Microsoft Defender
Automating scans with Task Scheduler
Other antivirus solutions

Firewalls

Why firewalls
Windows Firewall basics
Advanced Windows Firewall
ZedLan firewall log analyser
Introducing Linux iptables
Setting up a simple iptables firewall

Network Scanning

Getting started with Nmap
Advanced Nmap options

Network Connections

Getting started with netcat
Transferring files using netcat
Connecting to services
Setting up a netcat honeypot

Vulnerability Scanning

Preparing Nessus
Setting up a Nessus policy
Running a Nessus scan
Running an exploit

Web Applications

Combating application level threats
Running an SQL injection attack
Cross-site scripting
Scanning with ZAP
Using a proxy to manipulate web traffic

Network Protocols

Explaining data communications
Capturing packets with Wireshark
Making sense of the protocols

Conclusion

What's next