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

# Recap
We’ve covered some of the basic Windows defenses we should have in place. We’ve also seen how some of the more generic advice from earlier in the course (patch as soon as possible, make attacks noisier) shows up again in this chapter.

# Next steps
What can an attacker do if all these defenses are in place? Bypass them. We’ll take a look at phishing and what to do about it in our next chapter.

Introduction

Patching

Vulnerabilities

Cryptography

Windows

Phishing

What’s Next?

Recap