course material

1. 1. Define what constitutes a secure posture and how it
1. Define what constitutes a secure posture and how it helps in understanding the
importance of having a good defense and attack strategy.2. Describe the Incident Response
Process and the importance of having one? Be sure to include some industry standards and
best practices for handling incident response in your answer.3. What is a Cyber Strategy
and why is it needed? How can you build an effective enterprise cyber strategy?4. What is
the Cybersecurity Kill Chain, the different stages of the attack, and what are some examples
of activities that occur in each one of those phases?5. What are some strategies to perform
reconnaissance? 6. What are some current trends in strategies to compromise a system?7.
Describes lateral movement and how attackers perform lateral movement once they
compromise a system.8. What is Privilege Escalation and describe some ways attackers can
escalate privileges in order to gain administrative access to a network system?9. What is
Threat Intelligence and proves a few different aspects of threat intelligence?10. What is the
Recovery Process?11. Describe Vulnerability Management and the importance of
vulnerability management to mitigate vulnerability exploitation. 12. Describe log analysis
and provide some techniques for manual log analysis since it is critical for the reader to gain
knowledge on how to deeply analyze different types of logs to hunt suspicious security
activities