course | Cybersecurity Foundations
Looking to excel in cybersecurity foundations? Cybersecurity Foundations in Abu Dhabi offers applied tools, case studies, and certification.
IT-1067 | Cybersecurity Foundations
Course Sector : Information Technology
| Duration | Date from | Date to | Course Venue | Course fees | Book a course |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Days | 28/12/2026 | 01/01/2027 | Dubai | $4,250 | Book now |
| 5 Days | 31/01/2027 | 04/02/2027 | Doha | $4,250 | Book now |
| 5 Days | 14/06/2027 | 18/06/2027 | Dubai | $4,250 | Book now |
| 5 Days | 16/08/2027 | 20/08/2027 | Geneva | $5,950 | Book now |
Course Introduction
Businesses and organizations have been spending a lot on cybersecurity. As our society is more technologically reliant than ever before, there is no sign that this trend will stop. Personal data that could result in identity theft is now posted to the public on our social media accounts. Sensitive information like social security numbers, credit card information, and bank account details is now stored in cloud storage services like Dropbox or Google Drive.
This training course is designed to provide participants with a global perspective of the challenges of designing a secure system, touching on all the cyber roles needed to provide a cohesive security solution. Through lecture, labs, and breakout discussion groups, they learn about current threat trends across the Internet and their impact on organizational security.
The course will cover topics on standard cybersecurity terminology and compliance requirements, examine sample exploits, and gain hands-on experience in mitigating controls.
Course objective
- Gain a comprehensive understanding and awareness of security
- Identify different data protection principles
- Interpret and analyze tool output for network mapping/footprinting
- Reduce the attack surface of systems and network devices
- Review networking as it applies to security controls
- Examine the role of PKI/certificates in building trusted relationships between devices in a network
- Implement login security and other identity management solutions
- Explore current malware threats, anti-malware solutions, social engineering threats, methods, and techniques
- Analyze software vulnerabilities and security solutions for reducing the risk of exploitation
- Identify physical security controls and the relationship between physical and IT security
- Learn legal considerations and investigative techniques when it comes to cybersecurity
Course audience
This training course is designed for network professionals seeking to advance their knowledge and explore cybersecurity as a career path, and executives and managers seeking to improve their ability to communicate with security professionals and implement a robust security solution at the organizational level.
Course Outline | Day 01
Cybersecurity Awareness
- What is security?
- Confidentiality, integrity, and availability
- Security baselining
- Security concerns: Humans
- Types of threats
- Security controls
- What is hacking?
- Risk management
- Data in motion vs. data at rest
- Module review
Network Discovery
- Networking review
- Discovery, footprinting, and scanning
- Common vulnerabilities and exposures
- Security policies
- Vulnerabilities
- Module review
Systems Hardening
- What is hardening?
- Types of systems that can be hardened
- Security baselines
- How to harden systems
- Hardening systems by role
- Mobile devices
- Hardening on the network
- Analysis tools
- Authentication, authorization, and accounting
- Physical security
- Module review
Course Outline | Day 02
Security Architecture
- Security architecture
- Network devices
- Network zones
- Network segmentation
- Network Address Translation
- Network Access Control
- Module review
Data Security
- Cryptography
- Principles of permissions
- Steganography
- Module review
Public Key Infrastructure
- Public key infrastructure
- Certification authorities
- Enabling trust
- Certificates
- CA management
- Module review
Course Outline | Day 03
Identity Management
- What is identity management?
- Personally identifiable information
- Authentication factors
- Directory services
- Kerberos
- Windows NT LAN Manager
- Password policies
- Cracking passwords
- Password assessment tools
- Password managers
- Group accounts
- Service accounts
- Federated identities
- Identity as a Service
- Module review
Network Hardening
- Limiting remote admin access
- AAA: Administrative access
- Simple Network Management Protocol
- Network segmentation
- Limiting physical access
- Establishing secure access
- Network devices
- Fundamental device protection summary
- Traffic filtering best practices
- Module review
Malware
- What is malware?
- Infection methods
- Types of malware
- Backdoors
- Countermeasures
- Protection tools
- Module review
Course Outline | Day 04
Social Engineering
- What is social engineering?
- Social engineering targets
- Social engineering attacks
- Statistical data
- Information harvesting
- Preventing social engineering
- Cyber awareness: Policies and procedures
- Social media
- Module review
Software Security
- Software engineering
- Security guidelines
- Software vulnerabilities
- Module review
Environment Monitoring
- Monitoring
- Monitoring vs. logging
- Monitoring/logging benefits
- Logging
- Metrics
- Module review
Physical Security
- What is physical security?
- Defense in depth
- Types of physical security controls
- Device security
- Human security
- Security policies
- Equipment tracking
- Module review
Course Outline | Day 05
Incident Response
- Disaster types
- Incident investigation tips
- Business continuity planning
- Disaster recovery plan
- Forensic incident response
- Module review
Legal Considerations
- Regulatory compliance
- Cybercrime
- Module review
Trends In Cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity design constraints
- Cyber driving forces
- How connected are you?
- How reliant on connectivity are you?
- Identity management
- Cybersecurity standards
- Cybersecurity training
BOOST’s Professional Attendance Certificate “BPAC”
BPAC is always given to the delegates after completing the training course,and depends on their attendance of the program at a rate of no less than 80%,besides their active participation and engagement during the program sessions.
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