Practical Security: Simple Practices for Defending Your Systems

Gain insights into effective security techniques including patching, cryptography, and phishing prevention. Explore practices to make systems resistant and vulnerabilities more detectable, enhancing defense against attacks.

Intermediate

65 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

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This course includes

20 Playgrounds

40 Quizzes

This course includes

20 Playgrounds

40 Quizzes

Course Overview

It seems like hardly a week goes by without a high-profile computer breach. Why do these happen? How can you prevent them? This course doesn’t have all the answers, but it does outline practices that make life harder for attackers and that will help tide you over until you get a full-time security team in place. In this course, you will learn 5 simple, yet effective, techniques for preventing attackers from getting into your system. These techniques are related to: patching, software vulnerabilities, crypt...Show More

Course Content

Introduction

Get familiar with core security practices and essential tools for defending your systems.

Who Is This Course For?

What’s in This Course?

Patching

Unpack the core of efficient patching strategies to safeguard against software vulnerabilities.

Introduction Upgrading Third-Party Libraries and Software A Closer Look at Patching Library Inventory

Dependency Management: Python Dependency Management: JavaScript Automating Vulnerability Detection Network Inventory Nmap OpenVAS Patching Windows Finding Published Vulnerabilities Testing Your Patches If Patching Hurts, Do It More Often

Vulnerabilities

Examine software vulnerabilities, SQL injection, defensive coding, XSS, XSRF, and mitigating misconfigurations.

Cryptography

Grasp the fundamentals of using established cryptographic libraries and secure password management techniques.

Introduction Don’t Roll Your Own Crypto Some Key Principles Security When the Enemy Knows the System

Don’t Use Low-Level Crypto Libraries ECB Malleability CBC Is Still Malleable Evaluating Crypto Libraries Without Being a Crypto Expert Password Storage More Techniques for Password Storage Storing Passwords When You’re the Client Minimizing the Cost of Credential Loss Keeping Passwords Hard to Predict TLS Configuration What’s Next?

Windows

Solve problems in Windows security, from user account management to password policies, Active Directory, and BitLocker.

Introduction Login and Mimikatz Password Policy Active Directory: What Else Is It Good For?

BitLocker What’s Next?

Phishing

8 Lessons

Focus on understanding phishing, its types, social and DNS-based defenses, and response strategies.

Course Author

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