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Strategic Budgeting for Security Management
In this lab, you’ll practice calculating the ROI of security controls to show their overall importance to the company. When you’re finished, you’ll have the ability to quantify how much money each dollar spent on cybersecurity is saving your company.
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Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Understanding Security Investments
In this first challenge, you will learn to evaluate the tangible benefits of individual security investments.
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Understanding the Financial Cost of a Security Breach
In this challenge, you will review a case study of a past data breach and identify the overall impact of the data breach on the company.
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Calculating the ROI of Security Controls
In this challenge, you will be provided with a scenario in which you will practice calculating the ROI of a given security control.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
What's a lab?
Hands-on Labs are real environments created by industry experts to help you learn. These environments help you gain knowledge and experience, practice without compromising your system, test without risk, destroy without fear, and let you learn from your mistakes. Hands-on Labs: practice your skills before delivering in the real world.
Provided environment for hands-on practice
We will provide the credentials and environment necessary for you to practice right within your browser.
Guided walkthrough
Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!
Did you know?
On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.