Gain insights into cyber security fundamentals, explore common threats, discover protection mechanisms like firewalls, learn monitoring and response strategies, and develop secure systems as a developer.

Modern computer systems are almost universally connected, which creates wider attack surfaces well beyond code to users, hardware, and more. Securing systems is thus a fundamental skill for modern software engineers.

This course is a comprehensive introduction to cyber security best practices. You’ll start with an overview of common threats and vulnerabilities, as well as high-level concepts like privilege, integrity, logging, and mediation. With these concepts in mind, you’ll then learn common protection mechanisms and defense strategies from endpoint protection to firewalls, gateways, and proxy servers. Next, you’ll learn monitoring and detection techniques, alerts, and event management. Finally, when you detect a threat, you’ll know how to respond with support tickets, data preservation, and change management.

By the end of this course, you’ll have a better understanding of modern cyber security practices and a clear roadmap to implementing these as a developer.

Cyber Security Best Practices for Developers

# Overview

**Antivirus (AV)** is a security solution with one of the longest histories in endpoint protection. Its signature-based approach to identifying malicious software has made its relevance diminish over time. Organizations like Netflix have discontinued their use so that resources can be focused on more effective security controls.



Learn about the relevance of antivirus software when dealing with malware.


Antivirus

Learn about the relevance of antivirus software when dealing with malware.

Introduction

Basics of Security

Detect

Protect

Respond

Conclusion

Antivirus

Overview