Cyber Security Awareness - Introduction to Information Security
Learning-Possibilities
About This Course
This is a self-paced course that provides an introduction to information security and cybersecurity. Among the topics covered are Security Design Principles, Threat Modeling, and Security Policy. Students gain a broad overview of Information Security and Privacy (ISP) through high-level ISP concepts. We discuss both traditional design principles and principles that were developed to design secure systems. We'll talk about several examples of insecure design and techniques to improve the design. We take an in-depth dive into creating models to measure potential threats. We also talk about risk and ways of managing and measuring the risk to assets. We conclude by taking an in-depth look at different security policy models, including the Bell-La Padula (BLP) Model, the Biba Integrity Model, Lipner's Model, and Clark-Wilson Integrity Model. Next, we consider the practical aspects of the implementation of the policy models.
What you'll learn
- Define the three major terms in cybersecurity (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability)
- Differentiate between threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks
- Articulate different security mechanisms.
- Describe the specification, design, & implementation of secure systems
- Describe How to Design Security
- Enumerate the Fundamental Design Principles
- Describe Principles of Secure Design
- Analyze Security, Privacy, Ethics & Legal Issues related to design
- Enumerate the Security Life Cycle
- Describe Threat Modeling
- Analyze Threats using Ranking
- Apply Attack Trees
- Discuss the meaning of "security policy"
- Outline the elements of security policy
- Differentiate between security policy types, models, and levels
- Define and compare five security models (Bell-La Padula Model, Biba Integrity Model, Lipner’s Model, Clark-Wilson Integrity Model and Chinese Wall Model)
- Apply multilevel security policies
