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Introduction to Cyber Security

Learn the fundamentals of secure online behavior and gain practical skills to safeguard your personal information. Enroll now to protect yourself and your online presence from threats.

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Skills you’ll Learn

Cryptography
Secure-System Design Methodology
Risk Assessment
Cyber Attacks

About this Course

Get started on your journey to becoming a cybersecurity expert with our comprehensive Introduction to Cyber Security course. This course covers everything from the basics of cyber security, including key concepts and popular attacks, to advanced topics such as cryptography, security goals and their implementations, and designing security systems. You will also learn about vulnerabilities such as buffer overflow and participate in a case study on a real-world WhatsApp attack. This course is designed to be hands-on and engaging, with practical projects, case studies, and demonstrations to help you master the skills you need to succeed in the field of cybersecurity. Join us now and take the first step towards a rewarding career in this exciting and fast-paced industry.

After this free, self-paced, beginner-level guide to Introduction to Cyber Security, you can enroll in the Cyber Security courses and embark on your career with the professional Post Graduate certificate. Learn various concepts in depth with millions of aspirants across the globe!

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Course Outline

What is Cyber Security?

This module gives you an introduction an definition to cybersecurity.

Key Concepts of Cyber Security

You will understand the criteria to satisfy to call a system secured and understand CIA concepts in cyber security with examples in this section. 
 

Popular Attacks - Hacker Motivation

In this section, you will understand the organization's motivation to implement a secured cyber security strategy and the hacker's motivation to break into the system. You will also learn about various cloud service providers and why there is a shift to cloud storage. 
 

Popular Attacks

This section will brief you on ransomware, botnet attacks, social engineering attacks, cryptocurrency hijacking, and phishing attacks. 
 

Ransomware

This section will explain ransomware in detail with the WannaCry Ransomware cryptoworm attack for the bitcoin cryptocurrency example.

BotNet Attack

This section explains botnet attacks with Mirai malware for Linux systems to control bots remotely. 
 

 

Phishing Attack

This section explains the phishing attack in detail, with the Ukrainian Power Grid attack to destroy physical machinery and banking examples.  
 

Introduction to Cryptography

You will understand what cryptography is and why it is essential in network security. This section will also explain the basic cryptographic process to encrypt sensitive data.
 

Types of Cryptography

You will learn basic symmetric((private key) cryptography and asymmetric(public key) cryptography concepts in this section. 

Message Integrity

You will learn message authentication code(MAC), cipher text, and data integrity concepts in this section, with an example. 
 

Symmetric Key Cryptography

You will learn and understand Caesar cipher, stream cipher, and block cipher with solved examples in this section. 
 

Public Key Cryptography

You will understand the "key pair" principle that public key cryptography works on with examples and solved problems in this section. 
 

Security goals & Its Implementations - Authentication & Authorization

This section explains authentication and authorization, aiding data security and integrity, and concepts in detail.
 

Security goals & Its Implementations - Confidentiality

You will understand why it is essential for only authorized individuals to access, alter and delete data within a system, and also understand how it is maintained in this section. 
 

Design a Security System - Part 1

In this section, you will learn to understand different types of threats, ID and mitigate threads, and model a security solution to protect the system against that threat. 
 

Design a Security System - Part 2

You will understand the flow of the design, starting from security in software requirements, robust, consistent error handling, sharing requirements with the relevant team, handling internal errors, defensive programming, validation and fraud checks, and security policy for securing the data. 
 

Buffer OverFlow & Vulnerabilities

This section explains how a small error in code and other vulnerabilities can be leveraged to overrun the security of a system with an example.
 

Case Study: WhatsApp Attack

This section explains a case study on WhatsApp to help you understand the overall cyber security concept. 
 

 

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Introduction to Cyber Security

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