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

A network proxy is an appliance that can be installed in-line between the internet and the internal network. All internet-bound requests, like visits to web pages, flow through the proxy to evaluate and categorize the request. Some examples of these categories include:

- Controlled substances

- Gambling

- Commerce

- Phishing

- Software downloads

# How it works

The organization sets the internet policy, which might block certain categories of websites. However, it’s an imperfect system, and legitimate sites will occasionally be blocked. When this happens, users should have a process to request that the site be unblocked. This process should also include a security review to determine whether or not the site is safe to be accessed.



Learn how an organization uses an internet proxy to block certain websites from being accessed by employees.

Introduction

Basics of Security

Detect

Protect

Respond

Conclusion

Internet Proxy

Overview