Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)

The course introduces tools and tactics to manage cybersecurity risks, identify various types of common threats, evaluate the organization’s security, collect and analyze cybersecurity intelligence, and handle incidents as they occur.

Pre-requisite:

• CompTIA Security+ Certification

Audience:

This course is designed primarily for cybersecurity practitioners who perform job functions related to protecting information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. This course focuses on the knowledge, ability, and skills necessary to provide for the defense of those information systems in a cybersecurity context, including protection, detection, analysis, investigation, and response processes. In addition, the course ensures that all members of an IT team—everyone from help desk staff to the Chief Information Officer—understand their role in these security processes.

Outline:

Module 1: Assessing Information Security Risk

Module 2: Analyzing Reconnaissance Threats to Computing and Network Environments

Module 3: Analyzing Attacks on Computing and Network Environments

Module 4: Analyzing Post-Attack Techniques

Module 5: Managing Vulnerabilities in the Organization

Module 6: Collecting Cybersecurity Intelligence

Module 7: Analyzing Log Data

Module 8: Performing Active Asset and Network Analysis

Module 9: Responding to Cybersecurity Incidents

Module 10: Investigating Cybersecurity Incidents

Module 11: Addressing Security Architecture Issues