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

# An archaic example of defense

A castle provides an excellent example of using a defense in depth security strategy. A castle doesn’t rely on a single defensive measure to provide total protection, but on many. Some of these defenses include:

- High towers that provide a high vantage point so adversaries can be seen from afar.

- A moat with a single drawbridge that can be retracted during an attack.

- An outer wall.

- An inner wall.

- A main gate that provides a chokepoint.





Learn the importance of making a solid IT defense for an organization.


Defense in Depth

Learn the importance of making a solid IT defense for an organization.

Introduction

Basics of Security

Detect

Protect

Respond

Conclusion

Defense in Depth

An archaic example of defense