Advanced IT Security and Cybersecurity
About This Course
This comprehensive course is designed for individuals seeking to deepen their understanding and expertise in IT security and cybersecurity. Aimed at professionals with a foundational knowledge of cybersecurity principles, this advanced training program delves into the complex landscape of cyber threats and defense mechanisms. Participants will learn to navigate the evolving challenges of securing digital assets and information systems, ensuring the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data in various organisational contexts.
This course is intended for IT professionals, security analysts, network administrators, and anyone with a foundational understanding of cybersecurity principles looking to advance their knowledge and skills in IT security and cybersecurity.
Prerequisites
Participants should have a basic understanding of networking, system administration, and cybersecurity principles. Prior completion of a foundational cybersecurity course or equivalent experience is recommended.
What You'll Learn
• Analyse both the basic elements and broader aspects of information security and cybersecurity
• Analyse security control, access control, authentication methods and factors to identify and assess their effectiveness.
• Discuss key frameworks employed in security, analyse security policies, regulations, standards, and applicable legislation to ensure compliance and robust protection measures.
• Analyse the enterprise security architecture.
• Analyse the virtualisation and cloud security.
• Analyse various threat vectors and the corresponding intelligence and research sources to differentiate and understand their implications.
• Analyse various security concerns associated with vulnerabilities.
• Evaluate the types of attacks associated with social engineering.
• Analyse and contrast the different types of potential indicators to determine the type of attack methods.
• Investigate threat hunting practices and vulnerability scans to comprehensively analyse their details and implications.
• Analyse and examine penetrating testing concepts.
• Describe essential terminology, ethical hacking principles, and hacker classifications to understand the ethical hacking landscape.
• Examine the five stages of ethical hacking and the terminology of the Cyber Kill Chain methodology.
Entry Requirements
• Prerequisites
Participants should have a basic understanding of networking, system administration, and cybersecurity principles. Prior completion of a foundational cybersecurity course or equivalent experience is recommended.
• WPLN Level 6
• Advanced Certificate in IT Infrastructure and Operations; OR
• Mature candidates (≥ 30 years old with 8 years’ work experience in IT infrastructure and operation); OR
• Candidates with other qualifications will be considered on a case-by-case basis