Very well rounded and laid out course. I would definitely recommend to anyone looking to begin their cybersecurity career.
Cybersecurity Case Studies and Capstone Project
Cybersecurity Case Studies and Capstone Project
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Instructors: IBM Skills Network Team
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1 hour to complete
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What you'll learn
Hands-on experience in analyzing cybersecurity case studies to identify threat tactics and assess vulnerabilities you can talk about in interviews
Demonstrable, practical skills for applying response frameworks and forensic techniques to real-world breach scenarios
Expertise in penetration testing and compliance analysis to evaluate organizational security regarding compliance successes and failures
Hands-on experience with researching real-world data breach scenarios and analyzing them to propose recommendations
Skills you'll gain
- Incident Response
- Threat Modeling
- Data Security
- Exploitation techniques
- Threat Detection
- Artificial Intelligence
- Security Awareness
- Cyber Threat Intelligence
- Computer Security Incident Management
- Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks
- Vulnerability Assessments
- Network Security
- Email Security
- Fraud detection
- Cybersecurity
- Penetration Testing
- Malware Protection
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Reviewed on Apr 5, 2022
I loved the junior cybersecurity analyst certificate offered by IBM and it is a previliege to collect the IBM badge.
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Reviewed on Sep 3, 2021
It touches on real world cases and make attendants practice and help them how to read news about a a breach in any sources from the web. Thank you
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