Introduction to Cybersecurity

This course provides an overview of the field of cybersecurity. It covers core cybersecurity topics including computer system architectures, critical infrastructures, cyber threats and vulnerabilities, cryptography, information assurance, network security, and risk assessment and management. Students are expected to become familiar with fundamental security concepts, technologies, and practices. This course provides a foundation for further study in cybersecurity.

The course objectives are:

• Identify and prioritize information assets;
• Identify and prioritize threats to information assets;
• Define an information security strategy and architecture;
• Plan for and respond to intruders in an information system;
• Describe legal and public relations implications of security and privacy issues; and
• Present a disaster recovery plan for recovery of information assets after an incident.

Course Material

In this course, we mainly had both Labs and Discussion boards, as well as small quizzes. Unfortunately for the purposes of this portfolio, the labs were done in a third-party website that I no longer have access to on account of having now long since been done with this course, and as such the labs can not be displayed. Instead, I have included some of my discussion boards, such as the one below, which asked us to describe ways to mitigate the threat posed by malicious applications.

This discussion board was discussing what certifications a person should obtain of they wish to excel in the field of cybersecurity. This is when I first learned about the importance of the CompTIA Security+ certification, which I would go on to obtain on my first attempt in the summer of 2024, making this artifact a sort of preamble to this achievement.