Advanced Cyber Security

Description: This badge demonstrates advanced understanding of cybersecurity tools and techniques including applied cryptography, attack pattern analysis, applying machine learning to cybersecurity analysis, and deploying defensive decoy measures to determine advanced complex threats. Special attention is paid to hacking and counter-hacking strategies to keep an organization safe from advanced and zero-day threats. Learning Objectives: a. Understand and apply symmetric and asymmetric encryption principles b. Understand and apply cryptographic principles to enhance data security c. Understand and apply advanced encryption algorithms such as the RSA Algorithm d. Apply cryptographic principles to significantly enhance data and information security e. Apply cryptographic algorithms to myriad business and organization security platforms f. Understand attack methodologies and apply them to threat profiles g. Understand the risk equation including threats, vulnerabilities, risk, and residual risk h. Analyze a threat and develop multiple potential threat vectors i. Predict future threats through data analysis, data visualization, and machine learning j. Prepare comprehensive threat reduction plans and apply the plans to the organization k. Understand basic concepts about varied machine learning and apply them to cyber l. Understand the daily applications using machine learning algorithms in cyber m. Understand the implementation of machine learning cyber algorithms n. Understand how to establish effective machine learning models using data in Python o. Understand how to apply varied machine learning algorithms to resolve problems