General Security Concepts

WEBVTT Welcome and thanks so much for joining us. This is an overview for the course on general security concepts. I'm Sophie Goodwin and I'll be your host or possibly one of a few hosts for this course. I'm going to be functioning as a learner advocate, asking questions along the way that you might have at home, and you might see some of our other entertainers stepping into this role as well throughout the course. Of course, alongside me, how could I forget, is Wes Bryan. He is our subject matter expert for this course. Wes, could you tell us a little about yourself? Absolutely. Yeah, I'm excited to join this course because I've been teaching technical courses, technical certification courses for almost 15 years now. Comp TS certifications, Microsoft certifications, Microsoft certified trainers. So I have also been teaching security certifications for the better part of 10 years as well. So I look forward to diving in and helping assist you in your journey through just understanding and being able to implement some of these general security concepts. Okay, so the title of this course, General Security Concepts, kind of gives away what we'll talk about, but could you maybe give us a little bit of insight into who this course is for? Oh, yeah, absolutely. So if you're studying for a security centric exam, this is going to be right up your alley because we're going to be talking about a lot of the topics that really just kind of touch on just the commonalities across the cybersecurity landscape. So when we look at this, we'll be, you know, if you are one of these ones that maybe is stepping into any one of a variety of jobs, right, but more focused on the cybersecurity centric aspect of it. Maybe you are a systems or a network administrator, and you want some more security training or you want to bolt on maybe a security certification. This is for you as well. Keep in mind that anybody that is studying for a security centric exam should benefit from what they're about to see. Okay, so kind of going along with that, now that we know who this course is for, just out of curiosity, is there any prerequisite knowledge we should have going into this course? Yeah, we're going to be more focused on cybersecurity and security concepts here. There is some things that are going to be assumed that we're really not going to touch base on. So we really need you to bring to the table. And that's first, a foundational knowledge and general computing. You don't have to be like a Bill Gates or anything. That's not what we mean. But you have to have you have to know your way around the computing landscape. Have that at your, you know, as a tool. If you don't have that, you are going to have to backfill some of that because we're not going to spend time on the basic concepts of, you know, networking. So for instance, you have to have a strong foundational understanding and knowledge of networking and network administration, client server networks, how they operate as far as the communications. You have to have a foundational knowledge for TCP IP communications, understanding things like the OSI model. We're not talking about them here. And if you don't have that information, please be ready to backfill that information because we won't spend time for it. But if you do have that information already, bring it to the table. It's going to be the course for you. So that'll be kind of assumed knowledge. We won't really be focusing on that foundational stuff in this course. What are some of the things that we will be focusing on? Okay, so it'll be more of the foundation. We will have foundational concepts, but they're going to be security centric. And that's why I said assumptions are going to be made. But we're going to be looking at some of the major topics, right? We call them the three A's, authentication, authorization and accounting, and how we wrap those together. But that's just a small part of it. We're going to be looking at access control, concepts that are popular in the industry today, like zero trust and zero trust models and implementations. We're going to look at things like change management. Well, because any kind of security course wouldn't be good without a little bit of paper and bureaucracy. No, I'm kidding. Change management is definitely going to be something that we're going to be involved in there. And then finally, some of the fun stuff that I really like. We're going to look at some cryptographic solutions. And we're going to show you the things that we're using surrounding cryptography encryption, hashing algorithms and a bunch more. So whether you're sitting for a security exam looking to get some foundational cybersecurity knowledge, or you just want to learn some things like I do, then this is the course for you. So I think that's going to do it for this overview. Thank you for walking us through some of this, Wes. And thank you for joining us for this overview. We'll see you in the course.