Cyber Security Foundations: Start Building Your Career in Cyber Defense Course - EC-Council

Discover why cybersecurity is important, and how to build organisational cyber resilience in these four cybersecurity courses.

Discover how to build cyber resilience in your organisation

Cybersecurity is one of the key challenges faced by organisations in the digital age. The estimated global cost of cyberattacks is predicted to rise as high as $10.5 trillion by 2025.

Cyber resilience — the capacity to anticipate, respond, and recover from cyberattacks — is essential for modern organisations.

This ExpertTrack will familiarize you with cybersecurity essentials to help protect your organisation.

You’ll learn why cybersecurity is important, studying real-life examples of malware attacks. You’ll also explore key defences, such as ransomware protection and how to guard against social engineering attacks. This will be strengthened by best practices, such as password policy and mobile data security policy.

The last half of this ExpertTrack focuses on identity and access management. This will help you control access to sensitive information, to support data security and cyber resilience.

Explore why cybersecurity is important

This ExpertTrack is made up of four cybersecurity courses, each of which will help you build organisational cyber resilience.

The first is an introduction to why cybersecurity is so important. You’ll discover common cyber attacks, such as phishing, social engineering attacks, and ransomware, and how to protect against them. You’ll learn the organisational importance of mobile data security policy and password policy, and explore how to prepare for the worst with disaster management.

The second course focuses on malware protection. You’ll understand different examples of malware attacks, such as trojan horses, spyware, and ransomware, and use this knowledge to build a malware protection strategy that is alive to the evolving threat posed by malware.

Protect sensitive information with identity and access management

The last two courses focus on identity and access management. This ensures sensitive information is only available to certain people, at certain times, to strengthen data security. You’ll cover key areas, such as single sign-on, authentication, and cloud identity management.

Everything you learn in this ExpertTrack is founded on real-life, practical examples. You’ll be able to apply what you learn straight away, to address the very real threat of cyber attacks. These cybersecurity courses have been designed by EC Council, the world’s largest cybersecurity technical certification body. EC-Council has trained and certified over 220,000 information security professionals globally.

Key skills you will learn

• Data protection
• Virus recovery
• Identity and access management
• Cybersecurity
• Data security
• Malware protection
• Ransomware protection
• Virus protection
• Building cyber resilience
• IT security
• IT management

Learning outcomes

By the end of the ExpertTrack, you’ll be able to:

• Explore the foundational concepts and issues in cybersecurity.
• Assess cybersecurity threats.
• Evaluate how to reduce vulnerabilities and risk.
• Discuss cybersecurity attacks and their outcomes.

ExpertTrack course overview

• Cyber Security Foundations: Why Cyber Security is Important
  Learn how to defend your organisation from common cyber attacks, such as phishing, ransomware, and social engineering attacks.
• Cyber Security Foundations: Common Malware Attacks and Defense Strategies
  Discover how to defend yourself against evolving cyber-attacks in this cybersecurity training focused on malware protection.
• Cyber Security Foundations: Identity and Access Management
  Explore key identity and access management concepts and learn how they can contribute to data security and cyber resilience.
• Cyber Security Foundations: Reinforcing Identity and Access Management
  Build your identity and access management expertise in this course covering topics such as single sign-on, cloud models, and AI.

How ExpertTracks work

Join an ExpertTrack to master new skills in your chosen specialist area. Work through a series of topic-focused courses at your own pace, and pass the final assessment to earn a digital certificate award which proves your expertise.

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EC-Council

International Council of E-Commerce Consultants, also known as EC-Council, is the world’s largest cybersecurity technical certification body.

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