Assessing your organization’s security is a long process consisting of many moving parts. In this course, Evaluating Your Organization’s Security Posture, you will gain the ability to complete an end-to-end security evaluation to provide a “map” of your company’s security posture. First, you will learn about the practices of security evaluation. Next, you will discover the many tools and techniques available. Finally, you will explore how to effectively juggle the amount of work, evidence, and data collection required of an assessment. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of auditing, governance, and critical thinking needed to evaluate your organization’s security.
Author Name: Paul Mealus
Author Description:
Paul started building computers in high school. He feels lucky to have received life lessons and technical training in the United States Air Force. Throughout his career he has been part of many project teams ranging from single server deployments, to data center refreshes, to cloud migrations. He believes in being a well rounded IT practitioner and studying all aspects of technology. In the future he plans to move into IT leadership roles or build his own company. In his free time Paul enjoys w… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• The Case for Evaluating Your Organization’s Security
  26mins
• Planning and Organizing the Evaluation
  25mins
• Collecting Data and Conducting Interviews
  17mins
• Evaluating Your Organization’s Physical Security
  21mins
• Evaluating the External Footprint
  35mins
• Evaluating the Internal IT Security Posture
  34mins
• Evaluating the Weakest Link – Social Engineering
  21mins
• Setting the Benchmark and the Concept of Iterative Evaluations
  14mins
• Wrapping the Security Evaluation
  4mins