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

Continuous monitoring provides constant awareness of what’s happening on the network and all its connected endpoints. This awareness is provided by sensors installed on endpoints and at various places throughout the network. These sensors generate security alerts and monitor information that a centralized log repository can collect, like a **security information and event management solution (SIEM).**

## Operations of a security information and event management (SIEM) system

An SIEM generates alerts based on certain events that it receives. An SIEM provides the following functionality:
 

- Aggregation 

- Alert generation

- Single pane of glass monitoring 




 

# Overview

Continuous monitoring provides constant awareness of what’s happening on the network and all its connected endpoints. This awareness is provided by sensors installed on endpoints and at various places throughout the network. These sensors generate security alerts and monitor information that a centralized log repository can collect, like a **security information and event management solution (SIEM).**

# Operations of a security information and event management (SIEM) system

An SIEM generates alerts based on certain events that it receives. An SIEM provides the following functionality:
 

- Aggregation 

- Alert generation

- Single pane of glass monitoring 




 

Learn about the properties of continuous monitoring, including the ways to implement it.

Introduction

Basics of Security

Detect

Protect

Respond

Conclusion

Continuous Monitoring

Overview

Operations of a security information and event management (SIEM) system