SEC460 will help you build your technical vulnerability assessment skills and techniques using time-tested, practical approaches to ensure true value across the enterprise. Throughout the course you will use real industry-standard security tools for vulnerability assessment, management, and mitigation; learn a holistic vulnerability assessment methodology while focusing on challenges faced in a large enterprise; and practice on a full-scale enterprise range chock-full of target machines representative of an enterprise environment, leveraging production-ready tools and a proven testing methodology. SEC460 takes you beyond the checklist and gives you a tour of attackers’ perspectives that is crucial to discovering where they will strike.
What You Will Learn
Computer exploitation is on the rise. As advanced adversaries become more numerous, more capable, and much more destructive, organizations must become more effective at mitigating their information security risks at the enterprise scale. SEC460 is the premier course on building technical vulnerability assessment skills and techniques, while highlighting time-tested practical approaches to ensure true value across the enterprise. The course covers threat management, introduces the core components of comprehensive vulnerability assessment, and provides the hands-on instruction necessary to produce a vigorous defensive strategy from day one. The course focuses on equipping information security personnel from mid-sized to large organizations who are charged with effectively and efficiently securing 10,000 or more systems.
SEC460 begins with an introduction to information security vulnerability assessment fundamentals, followed by in-depth coverage of the Vulnerability Assessment Framework. It then moves into the structural components of a dynamic and iterative information security program. Through detailed practical analysis of threat intelligence, modeling, and automation, students will learn the skills necessary to not only use the tools of the trade, but also to implement a transformational security vulnerability assessment program.
You will learn how to use real industry-standard security tools for vulnerability assessment, management, and mitigation. It is the only course that teaches a holistic vulnerability assessment methodology while focusing on the unique challenges faced in a large enterprise. You will learn on a full-scale enterprise range chock full of target machines representative of an enterprise environment, leveraging production-ready tools and a proven testing methodology.
