Understanding Risk in Cybersecurity
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What is Understanding Risk in Cybersecurity?
Risk, at its core, stems from the interplay of three components: a threat, a vulnerability, and the potential impact. A threat represents any actor or event with the potential to harm an asset. A vulnerability is a weakness or gap in security controls that a threat can exploit. The impact reflects the potential damage or loss that would occur if the threat successfully exploits the vulnerability. Analyzing these three aspects together allows us to quantify and manage risk effectively.
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More in stage 4: Security Skills and Knowledge
- Security Skills and Knowledge
- Understand Common Hacking Tools
- Core Concepts of Zero Trust
- Understand Common Exploit Frameworks
- Roles of Compliance and Auditors
- Blue / Red / Purple Teams
- Understand Concept of Defense in Depth
- False Negative / False Positive
- Understand Concept of Runbooks
- Understand Backups and Resiliency
- True Negative / True Positive
- Understand Basics of Forensics
- Cyber Kill Chain
- Basics of Threat Intel, OSINT
- Basics and Concepts of Threat Hunting
- MFA & 2FA
- Honeypots
- Understand Handshakes
- Basics of Vulnerability Management
- Operating System Hardening
- Understand CIA Triad
- Basics of Reverse Engineering
- Understand Concept of Isolation
- Privilege Escalation
- Penetration Testing Rules of Engagement
- Basics of IDS and IPS
- Web Based Attacks and OWASP10
- Perimiter vs DMZ vs Segmentation
- Authentication vs Authorization
- Learn how Malware works and Types
- Star
- Ring
- Mesh
- Bus
- Understand the OSI Model
- Common Protocols and their Uses
- Common Ports and their Uses
- SSL and TLS Basics
- Basics of NAS and SAN
- Kerberos
- RADIUS
- LDAP
- SSO
- Certificates
- Local Auth
- SSH
- RDP
- FTP
- SFTP
- HTTP / HTTPS
- SSL / TLS
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It is lesson 102 of 301 in the free Cyber Security roadmap, in stage 4, Security Skills and Knowledge. If you are new to Cyber Security, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.