- Course
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Security Analysis: Vulnerability Analysis and Assessment
This course will teach you the basics of cybersecurity vulnerability analysis and assessment. You will become familiar with essential tools, and the hands-on knowledge gained from this course will help kickstart your career as a security analyst.
What you'll learn
In this course, Security Analysis: Vulnerability Analysis and Assessment, you will learn the basics of vulnerability scanning to secure your organization’s systems and networks against cyber threats. This introductory course will first show you the difference between unauthenticated and authenticated scans of target systems. You will then learn how to use simple, existing tools to track and monitor changes to critical files and directories. Next, you will create a network baseline by scanning through a widely popular tool and interpreting the results. Finally, you will run a whitebox scan on a target system, specifically targeting known vulnerabilities, and interpret the results.
After completing this course, you will have basic vulnerability scanning skills to protect your organization’s IT assets.
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About the author
Sadequl Hussain is an information technologist and digital content producer from Sydney, Australia. He has more than twenty years of experience in development, infrastructure engineering, database management, training, and technical authoring.