There are numerous pieces of information about you or your company that are confidential, and how you transport and protect your data plays a big role in its security. In this course, Security Awareness: Portable Data Protection and Destruction, you’ll learn how to protect and destroy your portable data when necessary. First, you’ll explore how to identify malicious attacks and how to stop from becoming a victim of those attacks. Next, you’ll discover how to be more proactive in avoiding this type of attack. Finally, you’ll delve into the safest ways to destroy your data when it’s needed. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the required skills and knowledge of security awareness to both protect and destroy your portable data.
Author Name: Jason Helmick
Author Description:
Jason Helmick is an author for Pluralsight. His IT career spans more than 25 years or enterprise consulting on a variety of technologies, with a focus on strategic IT business planning. He’s a highly successful IT author, columnist, lecturer, and instructor, specializing in automation practices for the IT pro. Jason is a leader in the IT professional community, and serves as board member and COO/CFO of PowerShell.Org. Jason’s publications include Learn Windows IIS in a Month of Lunches, and he h… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Introduction
  4mins
• Dangers to Portable Data
  22mins
• Identifying Sensitive and Confidential Data
  10mins
• Safely and Securely Storing Data on Portable Devices
  12mins
• Safely and Securely Removing Data from a Device
  7mins