With so many threats and vulnerabilities in today’s infrastructures, creating an impregnable framework is nearly impossible. Therefore, it is every IT security professionals’ responsibility to make important decisions and take action to best safeguard data and assets. In this course, Assessing and Mitigating Security Risks, you will gain an understanding of risk management and how it can enable thoughtful and focused defense strategies. First, you will learn about the landscape, what risk assessment is, and how it can be conducted successfully. Next, you will learn about mitigation and controls. Finally, you will delve into tools and resources that can help your company get a jump start on protecting your network. When you are finished with this course, you will have the knowledge necessary to respond to incidents and mitigate those security threats.
Author Name: Dale Meredith
Author Description:
Dale Meredith has been a Certified Ethical Hacker/Instructor EC-Council for the past 15 years, and Microsoft Certified Trainer for over 20 years. Dale also has an additional 7 years of senior IT management experience and worked as a CTO for a popular ISP provider. Dale’s expertise is in explaining difficult concepts and ensuring his students have an actionable knowledge of the course material. Straddling the line of fun and function, Dale’s instruction is memorable and entertaining. Dale’s knowl… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• What’s the Landscape Like?
  60mins
• What Is Risk Assessment?
  29mins
• Successful Risk Assessments
  44mins
• Mitigation and Controls
  26mins
• Tools and Tips
  31mins