Cybersecurity Essentials (CCST)

The course covers three domains of cybersecurity.
*The first domain, Endpoint Security, introduces critical foundational concepts in cybersecurity, such as common attacks and attackers; threats, vulnerabilities, and risks; current trends in cybersecurity; network protocol and service vulnerabilities, Windows and Linux endpoints; and threat mitigation and defense.
*The second domain, Network Defense, introduces critical foundational concepts in cybersecurity, such as system and network defense, access control, firewalls, cloud security, applications of cryptography, network security data, and evaluating security alerts.
*The third domain, Cyber Threat Management, introduces critical foundational concepts in cybersecurity, such as ethics and governance, network security testing, threat intelligence, endpoint vulnerability assessment, risk management, and post-incident response.