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Pluralsight – Advanced Persistent Threats: The Big Picture

11/08/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Pluralsight – Advanced Persistent Threats: The Big Picture
English | Size: 184.25 MB
Category: CBTs

Whether you’ve been in the information security field or not, you’ve definitely heard of them. Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), are responsible for some of the largest cyber-attacks in history. How do you defend against these threats? Where do you even begin? In this course, Advanced Persistent Threats: The Big Picture, you’ll learn everything that you might want to know about APTs. First, you’ll develop an understanding of their motives and identities. Next, you’ll explore when to classify a threat as an APT, and more importantly, when not to. Then, you’ll learn how to assess your own risk and set up a system to detect these threats before it’s too late. Finally, you’ll finish up with implementing practical defense mechanisms. By the end of this course, you’ll understand where APTs come from, what their goals are, how to detect and classify them, and minimize risk of threat from APTs.
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Pluralsight – Orchestration and Automation – The Big Picture

06/08/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Pluralsight – Orchestration and Automation – The Big Picture
English | Size: 79.42 MB
Category: CBTs

Automation is the key to surviving in today’s tech world. In this course, you’ll learn what automation is and how it is managed with orchestration.
Technology is changing at an ever-increasing rate. Humans can no longer effectively maintain the administration of technology without leveraging automation. [Read more…]

Pluralsight – Threat Modeling – The Big Picture

21/07/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Pluralsight – Threat Modeling – The Big Picture
English | Size: 106.65 MB
Category: CBTs

In this course, you’ll be provided with a high-level overview of what threat modeling is, how it can be used, and potential challenges you may face when attempting to use threat modeling for your day to day activities, projects, or environments.
Whether you’re a developer, executive, ethical hacker, or just have an avid interest in protecting yourself: You cannot protect something unless you understand what you’re protecting it from. In this course, Threat Modeling: The Big Picture, you’ll be provided with a high-level overview of the ins and outs of threat modeling. First, you’ll cover what threat modeling is and how it can be used to identify the types of attacks you might vulnerable to.
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Pluralsight – Infrastructure from Code – The Big Picture

20/07/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Pluralsight – Infrastructure from Code – The Big Picture
English | Size: 156.99 MB
Category: CBTs

Infrastructure from Code removes human related problems by providing management and provisioning of the Data Center through machine read configuration files. This provides a repeatable, recoverable and often times, more secure Data Center.

IT Ops has traditionally managed servers and the infrastructure through human actions, which often causes delays and mistakes from updates to deployments. Infrastructure from Code removes the human related problems by providing management and provisioning of the Data Center through machine read configuration files.
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Pluralsight – Cryptography – The Big Picture

20/07/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Pluralsight – Cryptography – The Big Picture
English | Size: 147.92 MB
Category: CBTs

Cryptography is an important part of information security planning. This course will teach you some of the basics of cryptographic algorithms and how to select the appropriate one to encrypt your data.
Securing electronic communications is vital to ensuring that information is protected as it traverses the network. [Read more…]

Pluralsight – Continuous Monitoring – The Big Picture

20/07/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Pluralsight – Continuous Monitoring – The Big Picture
English | Size: 92.81 MB
Category: CBTs

Adding continuous monitoring to your application management will make both your developers and users happy. This course, you’ll learn how CM makes it easier to catch bugs, simplifies regulatory compliance, and integrates perfectly with DevOps cycles.

To properly ensure your application is running – and running properly – you’ll need to understand how continuous monitoring works. In this course, Continuous Monitoring: The Big Picture, you’ll learn about continuous monitoring and how it fits into DevOps development cycles. First, you’ll dive into the principles and benefits of continuous monitoring. [Read more…]

Pluralsight – PCI DSS – The Big Picture

07/06/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Pluralsight – PCI DSS – The Big Picture
English | Size: 149.79 MB
Category: CBTs

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) affects every organization that stores, processes, or transmits credit or debit cards. In this course, you’ll learn about the standard and how it is used in card scheme compliance programs.
In an organization that touches payment cards, the information security agenda includes compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). In this course, PCI DSS – The Big Picture, you’ll learn the basic requirements of PCI DSS, the language it uses, and how the standard is structured.
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Pluralsight – Information Systems Auditing The Big Picture

18/04/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Pluralsight – Information Systems Auditing The Big Picture
English | Size: 121.10 MB
Category: Tutorial

This course will provide you with an excellent overview of the process and benefits of Information Systems Auditing.

Information technology is a critical component of business operations today. Nearly every part of the business relies on technology and networks in order to operate. This means that the IT audit function is important. In this course, Information Systems Auditing: The Big Picture, you’ll learn the value of audit from the perspective of either the auditor or the auditee that is subject of the audit. [Read more…]

Pluralsight – User Experience The Big Picture

05/04/2017 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

Pluralsight – User Experience The Big Picture
English | Size: 347.93 MB
Category: Tutorial

This course will teach you the basics of user experience, including the terminology, processes, and tools needed to build software in a user-centric way.

In recent years, there’s been a shift in how and why software is being developed, moving away from “it works” and moving towards “it works and it’s enjoyable to use.” The user is now at the center of the software being built, and user experience, or UX, is everything. But what exactly does that mean? How do you design, build, test and quantify an experience for your users? [Read more…]