Unit 10 — Cybersecurity Principles

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This unit discusses more basic concepts in IT security including: application security, common hacking techniques, and anti-virus software.
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Biometric authentication Botnet Brute force attack Chief Information Security Officer Compromise Credentials Cross-site request forgery Cybersecurity specialist Data breach Exploit Joe job Multi-factor authentication Piggybacking Ransomware Replay attack Salami shaving Script kiddie Spoofing Tailgating Trojan horse Worm Zero-day
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Reading Activity: Security Operations Center (SOC)

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Scene: It is 8:12AM in the SOC war room. Overnight, malware alerts have spiked sharply. A major client portal is timing out for some users in Europe. CISO: Good morning soldier! Bring me up to speed on the incident. SOC Analyst: Again, I am not really a soldier, but at 02:41 AM last night, our intrusion detection system flagged anomalous lateral movement from…
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Bots are constantly scanning the Internet looking for websites vulnerable to CSRF exploits so they can spam, change passwords, or even transfer funds.
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Stuxnet was a computer worm that used multiple zero-day exploits to infiltrate Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities and sabotage their centrifuges.
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As many popular Internet protocols are still vulnerable to spoofing attacks, the general rule of programming is still: "trust nothing".
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  • Describe a time when your network or computer was attacked by malware. Who was the bad actor? Where did the attack originate from? How did you resolve the issue?
  • Who was behaving more realistically, The SOC Analyst or the CISO? Was the SOC Analyst really a soldier? What did the narrator mean when she said, "Well, that was a bit much"? Do you agree with the narrator?
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