Cyber Security Course - Online/Offline

Core Cybersecurity Principles

A foundation in cybersecurity begins with understanding the essential concepts that govern all security efforts:

• The CIA Triad: This is the industry-standard model, focusing on three core pillars:
• Confidentiality: Ensuring data is kept secret and is only accessible to authorized individuals (e.g., using encryption and strong passwords).
• Integrity: Guaranteeing the accuracy and completeness of data, preventing unauthorized modification (e.g., using hashing).
• Availability: Ensuring systems and data are accessible to authorized users when needed (e.g., through redundant systems and Disaster Recovery plans).
• Risk Management: Learning to identify, analyze, and evaluate security risks to determine the best course of action—whether to mitigate, transfer, avoid, or accept them.
• Security Policies and Compliance: Understanding the importance of creating formal security rules and adhering to legal and regulatory standards (like GDPR, HIPAA, etc.).

Technical & Defensive Security

This is the hands-on aspect, focusing on the technologies and techniques used to build secure environments:

• Network Security: You learn how data travels across networks (LANs, WANs, protocols like TCP/IP) and how to secure them using tools like firewalls, Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), and network segmentation.
• Cryptography: Studying the mathematical methods (encryption and digital signatures) used to secure data both at rest and in transit, ensuring confidentiality and integrity.
• Application Security: Focusing on securing software throughout its development lifecycle to prevent vulnerabilities like SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) that attackers can exploit.
• Cloud Security: Learning the specific challenges and tools for protecting data, applications, and infrastructure hosted on cloud platforms (like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Operating Systems (OS) Security: Gaining proficiency in securing common operating systems, particularly Linux and Windows, and understanding concepts like access control and system hardening.

Offense, Detection, and Response

To defend systems, you must learn to think like an attacker.

• Cyber Threats and Attacks: Detailed examination of common attacks, including Malware (viruses, ransomware), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), and various forms of Password Attacks (like brute-force).
• Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing (Pen-Testing): Learning to legally and ethically test systems to identify and exploit vulnerabilities before malicious actors do. This involves using various security tools and techniques to assess a system's resilience.
• Social Engineering: Studying the psychological manipulation tactics (like Phishing) attackers use to trick people into giving up sensitive information, and how to train users to recognize and avoid them.
• Incident Response: Developing a step-by-step plan for what to do when a security breach occurs. This covers detection, containment, eradication of the threat, and system recovery.
• Digital Forensics: The specialized practice of identifying, preserving, analyzing, and presenting digital evidence to investigate and reconstruct a security incident.

Job Type: Fresher

Pay: From ₹15,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person