- Use security to win sales
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This course teaches you why security delivers a competitive advantage and outlines actionable tactics for converting your security investment into business value.
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- Establish your threat model
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In this course, you’ll get to grips with the three main components of thread modeling and how to establish one.
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- Hack it again
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Things change rapidly and security is never done. Learn why to reassess systems for security vulnerabilities, the best cadence to do so and the business outcomes that are obtained if it’s done right.
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- Hack your system
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Explore what you need to know to hack your system and uncover its vulnerabilities.
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- Choose the right assessment methodology
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In this course, you’ll explore the different assessment methodologies and discover the right one for your organization.
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- Why take this course?
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Teaches you why you would want to invest the time and effort to learn the insights you’ll glean from this learning path.
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- Build security in
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What does it take to build security into your system? Explore financial concerns, effectiveness and impacts to morale.
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- Spend wisely
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In this course, you’ll explore how to make the best use of your security budget and balance costs of time, effort and money.
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- Fix your vulnerabilities
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Learn to distinguish the two classes of vulnerabilities, the two types of remediations and the three-phase process of implementing them.
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- Get the right security testing
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Most organizations ask for penetration testing, yet are sold vulnerability scanning. You’ll learn how to differentiate these terms and figure out what best supports your security testing goals.
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- Start with the right mindset and the right partner
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This course helps you get into the right mindset and discover what makes a good security partner.
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- Information Security Management Processes skill assessment
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Syllabus
Syllabus
What you will learn
Whether you are a technology leader, software developer or security professional, you may be struggling with some (or all) of the same ten problems that anyone trying to secure software systems struggles with. However, the conventional solutions to those common problems tend to be completely backwards. This path identifies the common misconceptions about application security and replaces those misconceptions with what to do instead. The stories, strategies and tactics you’ll learn in this course are all based on decades of ethical hacking and security research. And you’ll learn the ultimate payoff: how to convert your security investment into a competitive advantage that helps you earn more sales, faster.
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How to claim CPEs
Should you complete this learning path, you’ll be able to download a certificate of completion. Use this to claim your CPEs or CPUs.
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