Information Security school training courses in Colorado Springs, CO (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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Outline :
Lesson 1: Information Security and Risk Management
Information Security Management
Security Awareness Training and Education
Risk Management
Ethics


Lesson 2: Access Control
Definitions and Key Concepts
Information Classification
Access Control Categories and Types
Access Control Threats
Access to Systems/Data
Access Control Technologies
Assurance Mechanisms


Lesson 3: Cryptography
Key Concepts and Definitions
History
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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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Strategic planning is hard for people in IT and IT Security because we spend so much time responding and reacting. Some of us have been exposed to a SWOT or something similar in an MBA course, but we almost never get to practice until we get promoted to a senior position, and then we are not equipped with the skills we need to run with the pack.

In this course you will learn the entire strategic planning process: what it is and how to do it; what lends itself to virtual teams, and what ne...

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