Information Security school training courses in Birmingham, AL (public, in-house or online)

In this course, students will build on your knowledge and professional experience with computer hardware, operating systems, and networks as they acquire the specific skills required to implement basic security services on any type of computer network.

Objective :
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: - identify fundamental concepts of computer security. - identify security threats. - harden internal systems and services. - harden internetwork devices a...

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In this course, students will be shown how to scan, test, hack and secure their own systems. Students will begin by understanding how perimeter defenses work and then be lead into scanning and attacking their own networks, no real network is harmed.

This class will immerse the student into an interactive environment where they will be shown how to scan, test, hack and secure their own systems. Students then learn how intruders escalate privileges and what steps can be taken to secure a system.

With the ubiquitousness of computer technology and the growth of the Internet, digital information has become one of the most critical for all types of organization, public and private, and for society as a whole. The amount of digital information stored is growing exponentially, and so is the need to provide wide and efficient access to it. Unfortunately, errors and malicious attacks readily propagate along the same channels as legitimate access to information. Consequently, security failures a...

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This course will explore each phase of the risk management lifecycle, focusing on implementing assessment and analysis techniques that should be used to properly assess and mitigate information risk. Students will learn techniques for how to perform risk assessments for new vulnerabilities, compliance violations, new IT projects, and how to qualify the current risk level for presentation to executive level management. A series of case studies will be followed throughout the course to provide stu...

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