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Cybersecurity for Engineers
CENTeR Skill Enhancement Program
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A free course, open to all, for newcomers who want a start in cybersecurity: security domains, Wireshark, Nmap and Metasploit labs.
About this course
To guide students in choosing a career track and to improve their cybersecurity knowledge, UIU Cisco Networking Academy offers “Cybersecurity for Engineers” for newcomers who want a start in the cybersecurity domain. The course is free of cost and open to all.
It covers foundation knowledge and essential skills in all security domains in the cyber world: information security, systems security, network security, mobile security, physical security, ethics and laws, related technologies, and the defence and mitigation techniques used to protect businesses.
Curriculum
- Lab set-up and introduction
- Introduction to cybersecurity
- HTTP and HTTPS, and analysis with Wireshark
- A world of experts and criminals
- Wireshark and man-in-the-middle attack (ARP)
- The cybersecurity cube
- Data and data privacy
- The art of protecting secrets
- The art of ensuring integrity
- Simple password crack (brute-force attack)
- Cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities and attacks
- Detecting threats and vulnerabilities using Nmap
- Gaining access using the Metasploit framework
- Exploiting the FTP backdoor and Samba
Before you start
- Basic networking
- Good knowledge of Linux
After the course you can
- Describe the characteristics of criminals and professionals in the cybersecurity realm.
- Describe the principles of confidentiality, integrity and availability as they relate to data states and cybersecurity countermeasures.
- Describe the tactics, techniques and procedures used by cybercriminals.
- Describe how technologies, products and procedures are used to protect confidentiality.
- Describe how technologies, products and procedures are used to ensure integrity.
- Describe how technologies, products and procedures provide high availability.
- Explain how cybersecurity professionals use technologies, processes and procedures to defend all components of the network.
- Explain the purpose of laws related to cybersecurity.