-: Welcome to our cyber security analyst plus,
or CSA+ exam certification course.
Now, in this course I'm going
to teach you everything you need to know
to take and pass the CSA+ exam,
known as the CS0001 certification exam by CompTIA.
Now, in this course I'm going to cover
the four domains and we break this down
into a section for each of those inside of the course.
As you go through each of these sections,
I'm going to provide you with the theory
and understanding of each of those sections,
and give you some knowledge checks along the way
with some mini quizzes.
Now, the first domain we're going to cover
is the threat management domain,
and in this we're going to talk about
the different threats that exist in the cybersecurity world.
We're going to talk about the tools and techniques
used by attackers and defenders,
we're going to talk about reconnaissance
and footprinting and so much more.
Now we move into our next section,
we're going to talk about domain two,
which is vulnerability management.
We're going to talk about vulnerability
management programs, and by that,
we're not going to talk about just
the software programs, which we are,
but we are also going to talk about
the programs in your organization.
We're going to talk about how to create
a vulnerability management program,
why you would need to create one.
And how often you need to do scans,
and all of those type of things,
so you can develop a vulnerability management program,
to secure your networks.
Then when we get to domain three,
we're going to talk about cyber incident response.
And here's what we're going to talk about,
what do you do when the bad things happen?
When the attacker breaks into your network,
what are the phases of an incident response?
How do you create an incident response team,
how do you classify the incident,
how do you analyze the incident,
and even how to do some real basic digital forensics,
and understand the concepts that are going to be employed.
Now when we go to domain four,
we're going to talk about the security architecture
and tools that are used, and in that we're
going to talk about different frameworks,
like COBIT, and ITIL, and NIST, and ISO.
We're going to talk about policies and procedures
and guidelines and controls, we're even going
to get into understanding the defense in depth
architecture and framework,
and how you can use that in your networks,
as well as talking about the software development lifecycle.
Now, I know this is a lot of information,
and we're going to spend a lot of time together
as we go through this course,
so I want to give you a couple quick tips for this class.
Now when you're going through and looking
at these videos, you may find that I talk a little fast
sometimes, if I talk too fast for you,
I want you to know that down in the browser,
you can click on the playback speed,
and either slow me down, or speed me up to your liking.
A lot of my overseas students who are not
native English speakers seem to think
that around 75% speed works really well.
For those who are native speakers,
most of them like playing it back at 1x, or 100% speed.
At my normal talking, I will try not
to go too fast, but sometimes I just get excited
and I start trailing off quickly.
Now, the second thing you can do,
some people are more visual learners than others.
I try to keep all of the points I'm talking about
on the slides and you'll see them
as you can see next to me here,
but I also have done close captioning
on every single video on this course.
So if you click the close caption button below,
you'll get every single word that
comes out of my mouth written in English,
across your screen, you can turn that on
or turn that off as you want.
And if you want to watch a video over and over
because you're not getting that concept, feel free.
And if you have any questions, post them
in the Q&A section and I'll answer you quickly.
The last thing I wanted to tell you
is that I provide for you as a bonus
on every single lecture a copy of the slide decks
in PDF format, you can download those
by going in the upper left hand side
of the browser, you'll see a button
that says resources, and attached to each lecture video
you're watching, you can click on that
and download that PDF, you can print it out,
you can take notes on it, and use it as a study guide
as you're preparing for the exam.
So, if you're ready to get started,
let's go onto the next video,
and start learning more about the CSA+ exam.