Course Overview

If you are freshly graduated and looking to start your career in cybersecurity (or even if you are switching from another IT field), then this is the right course for you!

This course covers all the aspects that anyone needs for a good start in cybersecurity, including the basics of this fields: Like what exactly is cybersecurity? what are the differences between cybersecurity and information security? Is the cybersecurity market size really huge? and what does it cover exactly?

You will also be able to classify hackers and know the way they think, so that you can easily protect your company. For this, we will dive deep into the cybersecurity kill chain, and discover the malicious tools that are used by hackers, in order to hack systems.

This course also covers the laws and standards that organize the cybersecurity world. For the laws we take the example of the United States of America, the European Union and Australia cybersecurity laws. Regarding the standards, we will take the most well-known ones, this include PCI-DSS for payment cards security, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) & ISO27001 as part of the ISO 27k family of standards.

What You Will Learn

  • How to start your career in cybersecurity
  • Cybersecurity market size & statistics
  • Cybersecurity laws (US
  • EU & Australia)
  • Cybersecurity standards (NIST
  • ISO27001
  • PCI-DSS)
  • Cybersecurity career pathway (including the certifications)

Program Curriculum

  • Section Introduction
  • What is Cybersecurity
  • Cybersecurity Statistics
  • Cybersecurity Market Size
  • Cybersecurity vs. Cyber Security
  • Cybersecurity vs. Information Security
  • Cybersecurity Pathway
  • Roadmap and Salary Expectation
  • Top Cybersecurity Certifications
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • Hackers Categories
  • Hackers Motivations
  • Why Hackers Hack?
  • Cybersecurity Killchain - Part 1
  • Cybersecurity Killchain - Part 2
  • Social Engineering
  • Hacking Techniques
  • Malwares - Part 1
  • Malwares - Part 2
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Section Introduction
  • ISO 27001
  • NIST
  • PCI-DSS
  • How to Become PCI-DSS Compliant?
  • Cybersecurity Laws
  • Cybersecurity Laws Examples (US, EU, and Australia
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

Instructor

Ahmed Zekraoui

Ahmed works as a Cybersecurity engineer for an IoT operator so that any kind of IoT device can be connected from all over the world using their network. As the majority of people who are interested, or work, in cybersecurity, Ahmed’s passion for this field has started during his university studies. He has been playing for many years with Kali Linux and parrot OS, testing hundreds of attack scenarios and tools using his little VirtualBox environment. Once graduated, he has started working as a Datacenter engineer. It was an amazing experience for him in which, he has discovered the Information technology field and worked with top technologies in different domains: Cloud computing, Networking, Monitoring. That is right, you guessed it, the next step was to jump into cybersecurity word, to practice his passion in a real production environment. Since then, he has been working with companies protecting their network and infrastructure from being hit by hackers.

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