Practical Security: Simple Practices for Defending Your Systems
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Practical Security: Simple Practices for Defending Your Systems

Intermediate

65 Lessons

9h

Certificate of Completion

Practical Security: Simple Practices for Defending Your Systems

This course includes:

20 Playgrounds
40 Quizzes
13 Illustrations

Course Overview

It seems like hardly a week goes by without a high-profile computer breach. Why do these happen? How can you prevent them? This course doesn’t have all the answers, but it does outline practices that make life harder for attackers and that will help tide you over until you get a full-time security team in place. In this course, you will learn 5 simple, yet effective, techniques for preventing attackers from getting into your system. These techniques are related to: patching, software vulnerabilities, crypt...Show More

Course Content

1

Introduction

Who Is This Course For?
What’s in This Course?
2

Patching

IntroductionUpgrading Third-Party Libraries and SoftwareA Closer Look at PatchingLibrary Inventory
Dependency Management: PythonDependency Management: JavaScriptAutomating Vulnerability DetectionNetwork InventoryNmapOpenVASPatching WindowsFinding Published VulnerabilitiesTesting Your PatchesIf Patching Hurts, Do It More Often
3

Vulnerabilities

IntroductionIntroduction to SQLChallenge: Select The JournalSolution Review: Select The JournalMore SQL CommandsChallenge: Write a Generalized QuerySolution Review: Write a Generalized Query
How SQL Injection WorksExtending the Defense Beyond Prepared StatementsAdditional Defenses as a Mitigation Against Future MistakesPutting It All Together for a Robust Defense
Introduction to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)HTML EncodingDefenses against XSSIntroduction to Cross-Site Request Forgery (XSRF)XSRF Prevention with SameSiteMisconfigurationDefault Passwords & CredentialsJenkins & Public-Facing ServersWhat’s Next?
4

Cryptography

IntroductionDon’t Roll Your Own CryptoSome Key PrinciplesSecurity When the Enemy Knows the System
Don’t Use Low-Level Crypto LibrariesECB MalleabilityCBC Is Still MalleableEvaluating Crypto Libraries Without Being a Crypto ExpertPassword StorageMore Techniques for Password StorageStoring Passwords When You’re the ClientMinimizing the Cost of Credential LossKeeping Passwords Hard to PredictTLS ConfigurationWhat’s Next?
5

Windows

IntroductionLogin and MimikatzPassword PolicyActive Directory: What Else Is It Good For?
BitLockerWhat’s Next?
6

Phishing

8 Lessons

COURSE AUTHOR
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