cyb 220 (CYB220)

A critical skill for you to have as a cybersecurity practitioner is to prioritize criteria, requirements, and data to determine the best course of action. The factors that influence your decisions can vary from cost to complexity, effectiveness to available resources, or best-practice to executive viewpoint. How can you evaluate the issues to determine what elements of your environment are most important?

Explore the fundamental principles and practices of application security. Identify common software vulnerabilities and develop strategies to reduce their potential impact. Analyze and assess the security posture of multi-tiered web applications.

As a security analyst, you are tasked with creating a concept brief for your system administrator. This task includes creating multiple accounts, configuring network settings, and modifying group policies. To help you complete this task, your instructor will provide you with a scenario containing network configuration settings and group policy changes that you will need to implement. Additionally, you will be asked to describe the benefits and drawbacks of virtualization technology

GNS3 is a software package that provides a platform to virtualize network configurations. Like Packet Tracer, this tool allows you to create a sandbox area where network configurations can be tested and honed to the specifications needed. In addition to the network configuration options that GNS3 provides, it also allows you to access the virtual machine behind the appliance in the GNS3 environment. This assignment gives you the opportunity to explore the basic options in GNS3. It would be in yo...

Using this course's cyber playbook, submit a screenshot of the item that you feel is the most valuable to you (now or in the future) and explain your reasoning.