Reading Notes

A repo dedicated to my thoughts while going through Code Fellows Ops 401 focused on Cyber Security.

Ops 401 - Cyber Security

Course Id: seattle-ops-cybersecurity-401d1

Precourse Setup

• install virtual box
• kali vm
• windows 7 vm
• ubuntu 20.04 vm

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Topics

• Kali and Metasploit
  • Kali Linux: A special Linux distro designed to facilitate Penetration Testing and Security Auditing.
  • Metasploit: A widely used penetration testing tool that makes hacking way easier than it used to be
  • Meterpreter: An incredibly dangerous attack due to in-memory exploits leaving almost no forensic trace.
• ISCM with Nagios
  • ISCM: Information Security Continuous Monitoring
• Security Auditing with CSET
• Identity and Access Management
• Data file encryption
• Protecting Data at Rest
• Data Loss Prevention
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Network Packet Analysis
• Intrusion Detection
• Cloud Architecture Security
• Cloud Network Traffic
• Threat Analysis, Cyber Kill-Chain
• Using MITRE
• Web Application Threat Modeling
• STRIDE Security Threat Model
• Splunk SIEM
• Threat Hunting with ELK Stack
• Cloud Incident Response
• Forensics
• Python in Cybersecurity
• XSS, SQL Injection
• Malware Analysis
• Powershell in Cybersecurity
• OWASP BWA
• Exploiting Web App
• Vulnerability Scanning
• Social Engineering
• Reconnaissance
• Sniffing and Evasion
• Exploitation with Metasploit