This course is targeted at information security professionals, managers and security/compliance practitioners in the financial industry.

In this course you will:

• Understand how to successfully implement and manage components of an effective information security program
• Boost your knowledge of threat vectors
• Understand and apply layered security program
• Gain confidence in your decision making with comprehensive cybersecurity knowledge

Experience in the finance information security domain.

Price: $750.00  Early Bird: $675.00 until 21 days prior to beginning of course

• Course Texts: EC-Council certified course materials provided
• Food: Lunch will be provided daily
• CEUs: 1.5
• Location: Metropolitan State University Science and Education Center
• Parking: Available in the Metropolitan State University Ramp for a $5.00 daily fee

Please Note:

• If you are registering through the workforce center, you must have your counselor contact IPD directly at institute@metrostate.edu

This course will significantly benefit security operations center analysts and managers at all levels.

Security Techniques Acquired:

• The steps of the incident handling process
• Detecting malicious applications and network activity
• Common attack techniques that compromise hosts
• Detecting and analyzing system and network vulnerabilities
• Continuous process improvement by discovering the root causes of incidents

Course plan:

1. Introduction to Incident Response Handling
2. Risk Assessment
3. Incident Response and Handling Steps
4. Computer Security Incident Response Team Roles and Functions
5. Handling Network Security Incidents
6. Handling Malicious Code Incidents
7. Handling Insider Threats
8. Forensic Analysis and Incident Response
9. Incident Reporting
10. Incident Recovery
11. Development and Implementation of Effective Security Policies Through the Lens of a Cyber Attack

Work experience in the Information Security Domain

The CISSP® certification is designed for:

• IT security analysts
• Vulnerability analysts
• Threat intelligence analysts

The broad spectrum of topics included in the CISSP® Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) ensure its relevancy across all disciplines in the field of information security.  Successful candidates are competent in the following 8 domains:

1. Security and Risk Management
2. Asset Security
3. Security Architecture and Engineering
4. Communication and Network Security
5. Identity and Access Management (IAM)
6. Security Assessment and Testing
7. Security Operations
8. Software Development Security

The security operations domain will be supported by a full-day training experience on the MN Cyber Range.

CISSP® candidates must have a minimum of 5 years cumulative paid full-time work experience in 2 or more of the 8 domains of the CISSP® Common Body of Knowledge.  A candidate that doesn’t have the required experience to become a CISSP® may become an Associate of (ISC)2 by successfully passing the CISSP® examination.  The Associate of (ICS)2 will then have 6 years to earn the 5 years required experience.

This course is ideal for information security professionals charged with guarding protected health information (PHI), including those in the following positions:

• Compliance Officer
• Information Security Manager
• Privacy Officer
• Compliance Auditor
• Risk Analyst
• Medical Records Supervisor
• Information Technology Manager
• Privacy and Security Consultant
• Health Information Manager
• Practice Manager

In this course you will gain knowledge in the following domains:

• Healthcare industry
• Regulatory environment
• Third-party risk management
• Information risk assessment
• Information governance and risk management
• Privacy and security in healthcare

Experience in the healthcare security, compliance and privacy areas.

This course will significantly benefit:

•  Security Officers
•  Auditors
• Security Professionals
• Site Administrators
• Anyone who is concerned about the integrity of their network infrastructure

The broad spectrum of topics included in the CEH ensure its relevancy across all disciplines in the field of information security.  Successful candidates will learn:

1. Key issues plaguing the information security world, incident management process, and penetration testing
2. Various types of footprinting, footprinting tools, and countermeasures
3. Network scanning techniques and scanning countermeasures
4. Enumeration techniques and enumeration countermeasures
5. System hacking methodology, steganography, steganography, steganalysis attacks and covering tracks
6. Different types of Trojans, Trojan analysis, and Trojan countermeasures
7. Working of viruses, virus analysis, computer worms, malware analysis procedure, and countermeasures
8. Packet sniffing techniques and how to defend against sniffing
9. Social Engineering techniques, identify theft, and social engineering countermeasures
10. DoS/DDoS attack techniques, botnets, DDoS attack tools, and DoS/DDoS countermeasures
11. Session hijacking techniques and countermeasures
12. Different types of webserver attacks, attack methodology, and countermeasures
13. Different types of web application attacks, web application hacking methodology, and countermeasures
14. SQL injection attacks and injection detection tools
15. Wireless Encryption, wireless hacking methodology, wireless hacking tools, and wi-fi security tools
16. Mobile platform attack vector, android vulnerabilities, jailbreaking iOS, windows phone 8 vulnerabilities, mobile security guidelines, and tools
17. Firewall, IDS and honeypot evasion techniques, evasion tools, and countermeasures
18. Various cloud computing concepts, threats, attacks, and security techniques and tools
19. Different types of cryptography ciphers, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), cryptography attacks, and cryptanalysis tools
20. Various types of penetration testing, security audit, vulnerability assessment, and penetration testing roadmap

Two years of work experience in the Information Security domain

Price: $2,850.00  Early Bird: $2,565.00 until 21 days prior to beginning of course

• Course Texts: EC-Council certified course materials provided
• Food: Lunch will be provided daily
• CEUs: 5.04
• GIAC CEPs: 18
• Location: Metropolitan State University Science and Education Center
• Parking: Available in the Metropolitan State University Ramp for a $5.00 daily fee

Please Note:

• If you are registering through the workforce center, you must have your counselor contact IPD directly at institute@metrostate.edu

For questions or more details on all cyber security courses, please contact Dr. Kyle Swanson, Dean of College of Science at 651-793-1681.

If you want to customize this course specifically for your organization, contact kyle.swanson@metrostate.edu or info@mncyber.org