Course Code: 28410

Introduction to Cybersecurity - Cisco

Class Dates:
1/1/0001
2/3/2025
Length:
2 Days
Cost:
$295.00
Class Time:
Technology:
Server
Delivery:
Instructor-Led Training

Overview

  • Course Overview
  • The Introduction to Cybersecurity course explores cyber trends, threats and staying safe in cyberspace, and protecting personal and company data.

    Benefits:
    Learn how to protect your personal data and privacy online and in social media, and why more and more IT jobs require cybersecurity awareness and understanding.

    Course Delivery:

    Instructor Led or Self Paced

  • Audience
  • Secondary and 2-Year college students, general audience

    The Introduction to Cybersecurity v2.1 is designed for students who are considering IT as career with specialization in cybersecurity. This exploratory course provides the students an introduction to cybersecurity. The curriculum will explore ways to be safe online, learn the different types of malware and attacks, measures used by organizations to mitigate the attacks, and research their career opportunities. The curriculum is appropriate for students at many education levels and types of institutions, including high schools, secondary schools, universities, colleges, career and technical schools, and community centers.

Prerequisites

  • None

Course Disclaimer

This course is available as a self demand course or an instructor led course. Course is subject to a minimum enrollment to run. Course may run virtually as a Virtual Instructor-Led (VILT) class if the minimum enrollment is not met. For more information, please contact 207-775-0244 or email: learn@vtec.org

Course Details

  • The Need for Cybersecurity
  • Learn the need for and importance of cybersecurity.
  • Understand the characteristics and value of personal data, and data within an organization.
  • What your online identity and data is, where it is, and why it is of interest to cyber criminals.
  • What organizational data is, and why it must be protected.
  • What cyber warfare is and why organizations, nations, and governments need cybersecurity professionals to protect their citizens and infrastructure.
  • Attacks, Concepts and Techniques
  • Recognize the characteristics and operation of a cyber attack.
  • Interpret the trends in the cyber threat landscape.
  • Security vulnerabilities and the different types of vulnerabilities and malware.
  • The techniques used by attackers to infiltrate a system.
  • The characteristics and operation of a cyber attack.
  • The trends in the cyber threat landscape.
  • Protecting Your Data and Privacy
  • Understand how to protect devices from threats.
  • Master how to safeguard your privacy.
  • Tips for protecting your personal devices and data by creating strong passwords and using wireless networks safely.
  • Authentication techniques helping you maintain your data securely with tips about what to do and what not to do online.
  • Protecting devices from threats.
  • Safeguarding your privacy.
  • Protecting the Organization
  • Learn techniques to protect organizations from cyber attacks.
  • Recognize the behavior-based approach to cybersecurity.
  • Explain Cisco’s approach to cybersecurity.
  • Equipment, data, and the commonly used security terms such as botnets, the kill chain, and behavior-based security.
  • Cisco’s approach to cybersecurity using a CSIRT team and a security playbook.
  • Techniques for protecting organizations from cyber attacks.
  • The behavior-based approach to cybersecurity.
  • Cisco’s approach to cybersecurity.
  • Will Your Future Be in Cybersecurity?
  • Understand legal and ethical issues in cybersecurity
  • Explore the opportunities for pursuing an education and a career in cybersecurity.
  • Curriculum Overview
  • ? Students learn the basics of being safe online.
  • Students are introduced to different types of malware and attacks, and how organizations are protecting themselves against these attacks.
  • Students explore the career options in cybersecurity.
  • The language used to describe cybersecurity concepts is designed to be easily understood by learners at all ? The language used to describe cybersecurity concepts is designed to be easily understood
  • Activities, including paper-based labs, videos, and quizzes, address a variety of learning styles and help stimulate learning and promote increased knowledge retention.