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Course Overview

Cybersecurity is a critical aspect of modern digital infrastructure, ensuring the protection of sensitive data, systems, and networks from cyber threats. Microsoft Cyber Security Fundamentals provides essential knowledge to understand and mitigate security risks in today's ever-evolving cyber landscape. Learning about cybersecurity is crucial for professionals to safeguard organizations against cyberattacks, data breaches, and unauthorized access, ensuring business continuity and regulatory compliance. This course offers foundational insights into cybersecurity principles, attack methodologies, and defense strategies used by security professionals.

This course begins with an overview of the cybersecurity landscape, emphasizing the evolving threat environment, the "assume compromise" philosophy, and the financial impact of security breaches. It then explores offensive security techniques through Red Team strategies, including penetration testing, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and exfiltration. Next, the course shifts to defensive strategies with Blue Team methodologies, covering attack detection, incident response, privilege restriction, and mitigation tactics. Finally, the course discusses security beyond breaches, including the CIA triad, organizational security preparations, and policy development for long-term cybersecurity resilience.

By the end of this course, learners will have a strong foundation in cybersecurity concepts, threat actor tactics, and defensive strategies, equipping them with the skills to enhance security posture in their organizations.

What You Will Learn

  • Learn about the current enterprise security landscape
  • Learn how to define Assume Compromise Approach
  • Practice Red Team vs Blue Team Exercises
  • Learn how to develop organizational security preparation, processes and responses

Program Curriculum

  • About the Author
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council

  • Current Cybersecurity Landscape
  • Assume Compromise Philosophy
  • Cost of Breach
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Red Team vs. Blue Team Exercises
  • The Attackers Objective
  • Red Team Kill Chain
  • Document Vulnerabilities
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Blue Team
  • Blue Team Kill Chain
  • Restrict Privilege Escalation
  • Restrict Lateral Movement
  • Attack Detection
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • CIA Triad
  • Organization Preparations
  • Developing and Maintaining Policies
  • Chapter 5 Quiz
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Instructor

Cristian Calinescu

Cristian Calinescu is a Microsoft certified Senior Infrastructure Engineer and Infrastructure Security Operations Manager. His areas of expertise are Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, Microsoft Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange (2003 - 2019), Virtualization (Hyper-V, VMWare), Linux OS, PowerShell (including scripting). Cristian has been involved in various maintenance and/or implementation projects based on the technologies mentioned above. He has also participated in network design and implementations projects as well as assisting customers migrating to the latest technologies.

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