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Practical Security: Simple Practices for Defending Your Systems
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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.
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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
It seems like hardly a week goes by without a high-profile computer breach. Why do these happen? How can you prevent them? This ...Show More

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Introduction

2 Lessons

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

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Windows

6 Lessons

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

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Phishing

8 Lessons

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