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Assessing and Mitigating Security Risks
The capacity to perform risk management is crucial for anyone hoping to defend their networks and resources. This course will teach you about risk policy, assessment, analysis, and mitigation of your networks.
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- Course
Assessing and Mitigating Security Risks
The capacity to perform risk management is crucial for anyone hoping to defend their networks and resources. This course will teach you about risk policy, assessment, analysis, and mitigation of your networks.
Beginner
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What you'll learn
With so many threats and vulnerabilities in today's infrastructures, creating an impregnable framework is nearly impossible. Therefore, it is every IT security professionals' responsibility to make important decisions and take action to best safeguard data and assets. In this course, Assessing and Mitigating Security Risks, you will gain an understanding of risk management and how it can enable thoughtful and focused defense strategies. First, you will learn about the landscape, what risk assessment is, and how it can be conducted successfully. Next, you will learn about mitigation and controls. Finally, you will delve into tools and resources that can help your company get a jump start on protecting your network. When you are finished with this course, you will have the knowledge necessary to respond to incidents and mitigate those security threats.
Assessing and Mitigating Security Risks
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Table of contents
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Understanding What This Course Is About | 5m 23s
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Understanding the Landscape | 2m 41s
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It's an IT issue | 4m 41s
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The Landscape: Malware | 3m 30s
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The Landscape: Ransomware | 3m 46s
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The Landscape: Mobile Devices | 3m 51s
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The Landscape: Kinetic Attacks | 3m 58s
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The Attacker's Mentality | 5m 55s
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The Attacker's Mindset | 1m 53s
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The Mindset on Social Engineering | 8m 36s
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The Mindset on Cloud Storage | 5m 4s
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The Mindset on Mobile Devices | 4m 44s
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The Mindset on Kinetic Attack Vectors | 4m 29s
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Summary | 1m 28s
Dale Meredith has been a Certified Ethical Hacker/Instructor EC-Council for the past 15 years, and Microsoft Certified Trainer for over 20 years. Dale also has an additional 7 years of senior IT management experience and worked as a CTO for a popular ISP provider. Dale's expertise is in explaining difficult concepts and ensuring his students have an actionable knowledge of the course material.