Gain insights into effective security techniques including patching, cryptography, and phishing prevention. Explore practices to make systems resistant and vulnerabilities more detectable, enhancing defense against attacks.

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It seems like hardly a week goes by without a high-profile computer breach. Why do these happen? How can you prevent them? This course doesn’t have all the answers, but it does outline practices that make life harder for attackers and that will help tide you over until you get a full-time security team in place.

In this course, you will learn 5 simple, yet effective, techniques for preventing attackers from getting into your system. These techniques are related to: patching, software vulnerabilities, cryptography, windows security, and phishing. Within each chapter you will learn the best practices for preventing vulnerabilities and how to make them more detectable. 

This course is based on the Pragmatic Programmers’ book, Practical Security, and is aimed at developers, admins, team leads, architects, technology generalists, and all others who stand guard against the things that disrupt the network.

Practical Security: Simple Practices for Defending Your Systems

Credentials such as keys and passwords, by their nature, are extremely valuable to attackers and difficult to work with securely. Of course, we do our best to keep them safe, but what if we fail? Is there anything we can do to soften the blow?

Consider this serious-looking equation:


The Impact of credential loss can be minimized from the get-go. Let's explore how.

Introduction

Patching

Vulnerabilities

Cryptography

Windows

Phishing

Minimizing the Cost of Credential Loss