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

Cyber intelligence is shared information that provides ways to identify attacks, attackers, and malware while attempting to prevent future attacks from. There are many sources of intel, some of which are free. Several communities exist where members openly share information based on their own experience and research. Finding intel isn’t the problem. The challenge is finding information of value, or actionable intelligence.


# Collect intel on time

Intel also has an expiration date, usually a short one. Once the details about an attack are learned, the effectiveness of the attack is severely diminished because people know how to protect against it. The tactics adapt and change as a result. Intel needs to be received on time and assigned an expiration date based on when it was received, or at the very least, its value needs to be reduced as time goes on. Otherwise we run the risk of collecting intel perpetually, which makes it increasingly more difficult to use the information as the collection grows.



Learn about the importance of cyber intelligence.


Cyber Intelligence

Learn about the importance of cyber intelligence.

Introduction

Basics of Security

Detect

Protect

Respond

Conclusion

Cyber Intelligence

Overview