Advanced Persistent Threats: The Big Picture
Advanced Persistent Threats, the most infamous yet misunderstood types of threats against your organization. This course will teach you everything you want to know about them from origins and goals, to practical detection, and defense against an APT.
What you'll learn
Whether you've been in the information security field or not, you've definitely heard of them. Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), are responsible for some of the largest cyber-attacks in history. How do you defend against these threats? Where do you even begin? In this course, Advanced Persistent Threats: The Big Picture, you'll learn everything that you might want to know about APTs. First, you'll develop an understanding of their motives and identities. Next, you'll explore when to classify a threat as an APT, and more importantly, when not to. Then, you'll learn how to assess your own risk and set up a system to detect these threats before it's too late. Finally, you'll finish up with implementing practical defense mechanisms. By the end of this course, you'll understand where APTs come from, what their goals are, how to detect and classify them, and minimize risk of threat from APTs.
Table of contents
- The Security Onion 3m
- Understanding Defence with the OSI Layers 1m
- Defense at the Physical Layer 4m
- Defense at the Data Link Layer 2m
- Defense at the Network Layer 2m
- Securing the Presentation Layer 2m
- Defense at the Application Layer and AV Solutions 4m
- Advanced Network Security 3m
- Advanced Physical Security 3m
- Infrastructural and Application Security 2m
- Summary 1m
- Course Summary 2m
About the author
Rithwik Jayasimha is an information security consultant and researcher. He loves making devices of all shapes and sizes perform tasks for which they were not originally intended. Rithwik loves a good challenge - hit him up with a crypto challenge anytime! He is experienced in both offensive as well as defensive security. He heads a small group of pen testers based out of Bangalore. Rithwik is highly passionate about teaching and wants more people to enter security - both as hobbyists and profess... more