Description
This course provides you with skills to evaluate a system's security and make recommendations that make the system more secure.
Core Skills:
- Threats and vulnerabilities: use proactive threat intelligence to manage organizational security and vulnerability activities.
- Software and systems: employ security solutions to manage infrastructure and understand software and hardware assurance best practices.
- Compliance and assessment: apply security concepts for risk mitigation and learn the importance of frameworks, policies, procedures, and controls.
- Security operations and monitoring: analyse security monitoring data and apply configuration changes to existing controls as a way to improve security.
- Incident response: use the appropriate procedures, check potential indicators of compromise, and apply basic digital forensics techniques.
This course is intended for people who want to learn about cyber security defense using tools such as Kali Linux, Cisco Security Appliances, Autopsy, pfSense, Burp Suite, Security Onion, Ettercap, John the Ripper, Metasploit, Shodan, Nmap, NetCat, Snort, Nessus, NetworkMiner, Acunetix, netstat, Windows Defender, TCPDump, PentTBox and Wireshark
This course is at an advanced level.
The course is offered in partnership with TestOut.
For organisations that wish to pay the student fees for this course and are unable to pay by credit card via the website, please contact the Short Course team via email on shortcourses@tafesa.edu.au to organise a Third Party Payment invoice.
Class Times
Accepting enrolments up until 30th of June 2025
Online self-paced paced study up to 6 months
Please Note - This course commences from 20th of January 2025. You will receive further information from your lecturer after this date.
Student Visa (500)
Current VISA holders eligible
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