Fundamentals of Defending Systems

This lesson is an introduction to the Security Analyst role and how that role fits into an organization.

This lesson provides the underlying philosophy and objectives for your work as an Analyst. Through real examples, you'll explore a variety of attack vectors and threat modeling strategies.

This lesson is a broad survey of the families of security controls and provides opportunities to work with some of the technical mechanisms used to prevent security challenges.

This lesson focuses on improving your organization's posture by applying control concepts to design infrastructure that is more resistant to intrusion.

For your final project, you will assume the role of an Information Security Analyst for an industrial manufacturing company located in the Midwest Unites States.