Cyber Threat Intelligence (Coursera)

This course also gives you hands on access to cybersecurity tools important to a system analyst.

This course is intended for anyone who wants to gain a basic understanding of Cybersecurity or as the sixth course in a series of courses to acquire the skills to work in the Cybersecurity field as a Cybersecurity Analyst.

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In this course, you will learn to:

• Describe examples of network defensive tactics.

• Discuss data loss prevention and endpoint protection concepts and tools.

• Explore a data loss prevention tool and learn how to classify data in your database environment.

• Describe security vulnerability scanning technologies and tools.

• Recognize application security threats and common vulnerabilities.

• Identify the key concepts around threat intelligence.

• Explore a SIEM product and review suspicious alerts and how to take action.

Completing this course will count towards your learning in any of the following programs:

- IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate

- Security Analyst Fundamentals Specialization

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Threat Intelligence

In this module you will investigate several threat intelligence resources.

WEEK 2

Data Loss Prevention and Mobile Endpoint Protection

In this module you will learn about data loss prevention tools and risks as well as managing mobile endpoints.

WEEK 3

Scanning

In this module you will learn various scanning technologies and how they apply to cybersecurity.

Application Security and Testing

In this module you will learn about application architecture, security and DevSecOps.

WEEK 4

SIEM Platforms

In this module you will learn about SIEM platforms and apply your knowledge.

WEEK 5

Threat Hunting

In this module, you will learn about threat hunting and how proactive threat hunting is used at a Security Operation Center or SOC.