Endpoint Security

In this course, you will learn how to assess the network, operating systems, and endpoints for vulnerabilities, and how to secure the network. You will also gain skills to maintain the integrity, confidentiality, and availability in your network and your data.

Endpoint introduces important foundational concepts in cybersecurity such as common attacks and attackers, threats, vulnerabilities, and risks, current trends in cybersecurity, network protocol and service vulnerabilities, Windows and Linux endpoints, and threat mitigation and defense. By the end of the course, learners can identify common threats and mitigation techniques, understand the concepts of threat, vulnerability, and risk, and gain experience analyzing common attacks, endpoint operation and security, and malware.

The course material will assist you in developing learner skills, including:

• How threat actors execute some of the most common types of cyberattacks.
• Network security principles.
• How TCP.IP vulnerabilities enable network attacks.
• Recommend measures to mitigate threats.
• Troubleshoot a wireless network.
• How devices and services are used to enhance network security.
• Using Windows administrative tools.
• Implement basic Linux security.
• Evaluating endpoint protection and the impact of malware.
• Using cybersecurity best practices to improve confidentiality, integrity, and availability.