ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity -CC Cyber Security Beginners

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1: Certified in Cybersecurity Course Introduction – What we will cover?

Lecture 2: **How to get the most out of this Course**

Lecture 3: About Trainer

Lecture 4: Useful Links for CC Certification Training

Chapter 2: Domain 1 : Security Principles – 26% – 20 Questions in the Exam

Lecture 1: What is the purpose of Information Security and Cybersecurity?

Lecture 2: Cyber Security, Information Security and Information Assurance

Lecture 3: Understand the Security Controls

Lecture 4: IT General Controls and Control examples

Lecture 5: Keep Moving: Overcome Obstacles, Success is Your Ally!

Lecture 6: Control Objective & Compensating Controls

Lecture 7: ISC2 CC – Defense in Depth

Lecture 8: ISC2 CC – Risk Management Overview

Lecture 9: ISC2 CC – Types of Risk and Risk Levels

Lecture 10: ISC2 CC – Risk Identification

Lecture 11: Risk Analysis

Lecture 12: ISC2 CC – Risk Evaluation and Response

Lecture 13: ISC2 CC – Risk Reporting and Monitoring

Lecture 14: ISC2 CC – Risk Management Frameworks

Lecture 15: ISC2 CC – Governance and Management

Lecture 16: ISC2 CC – Information Security Governance

Lecture 17: ISC2 CC – Policies

Lecture 18: AUP & Clear Desk and Physical Security Policies

Lecture 19: Example – Internet Access, Email Security – Remote Access Policies

Lecture 20: Example – Network, Wireless & BYOD Policies

Lecture 21: Example – Data Protection, Encryption, Classification Policies

Lecture 22: ISC2 CC – Standards

Lecture 23: ISC2 CC – Procedures and Guidelines

Lecture 24: ISC2 CC – Example of Policies, Standards and Procedures and their attributes

Lecture 25: ISC2 CC – Security Standards and Frameworks

Lecture 26: ISC2 CC – Security vs Privacy and Privacy Regulations

Lecture 27: Laws and their types

Lecture 28: ISC2 Values – Understand the ISC2 Code of Ethics

Chapter 3: Domain 2 : Business Continuity (BC), Disaster Recovery & IRP – 10% – 7 Questions

Lecture 1: ISC2 CC – Basic Security Terminologies – Security Foundations

Lecture 2: ISC2 CC – Understand the Concept of Security Vulnerabilities

Lecture 3: ISC2 CC – Adversaries and Threat Actors

Lecture 4: ISC2 CC – Malware – Worm, Virus, Trojan, Spyware, Botnet, Adware, Fileless

Lecture 5: ISC2 CC – Anti-Malware Security Measures and Security Best Practices

Lecture 6: ISC2 CC – Cyber Attacks – MiTM

Lecture 7: ISC2 CC – Cyber Attacks – DOS & DDOS

Lecture 8: ISC2 CC – Web Application Attacks

Lecture 9: ISC2 CC – How Cyber Attack Works?

Lecture 10: ISC2 CC – Cyber Kill Chain

Lecture 11: ISC2 CC – Incident Management

Lecture 12: ISC2 CC – Incident Response

Lecture 13: ISC2 CC – Collecting digital Evidence and Forensic

Lecture 14: ISC2 CC – Disasters and Business Impact Assessment

Lecture 15: ISC2 CC – Disaster Recovery Plan

Lecture 16: ISC2 CC – Business Continuity Plan

Lecture 17: ISC2 CC – RPO and RTO

Lecture 18: ISC2 CC – Recovery Strategies

Lecture 19: ISC2 CC – BCP Testing and Evaluation

Lecture 20: ISC2 CC – Data Backup

Lecture 21: ISC2 CC – Backup Types

Lecture 22: ISC2 CC – Storage Redundancy using RAID

Lecture 23: ISC2 CC – What is Database?

Lecture 24: ISC2 CC – Database Resiliency and Data Availability

Chapter 4: Domain 3 : Access Control – 22% – 17 Questions

Lecture 1: 3- 1 – CC – Security Facility Design

Lecture 2: 3- 2 – CC – Physical Access Controls

Lecture 3: 3- 3 – CC – Environmental Security

Lecture 4: 3- 4 – CC – AAA Overview

Lecture 5: 3- 5 – CC – Password Attacks

Lecture 6: 3- 6 – CC – Authorization and Access Control Models

Lecture 7: 3- 7 – CC – Accounting and Auditing

Lecture 8: 3- 8 – CC – SSO and RSO – Single Sign On and Reduced Sign On Concept

Lecture 9: 3- 10 – CC – Personnel Security Measures

Chapter 5: Domain 4 : Network Security – 24% – 18 Questions

Lecture 1: 4- 1 – CC – Introduction to IT Networks and Networking Basic Concepts

Lecture 2: 4- 2 – CC – OSI and TCPIP Models overview

Lecture 3: 4- 3 – CC – Explaining OSI Lower Layers – Physical Layer

Lecture 4: 4- 4 – CC – Explaining OSI Lower Layers – Layer 2

Lecture 5: 4- 5 – CC – Explaining OSI Lower Layers – Network Layer

Lecture 6: 4- 6 – CC – Explaining OSI Higher Layers – Transport to Application

Lecture 7: 4- 7 – CC – Wireless and Radio Frequency Based Communication

Lecture 8: 4- 8 – CC – Network Segmentation and VLANs

Lecture 9: 4- 9 – CC – Layer 2 Attacks – Wired

Lecture 10: 4- 10 – CC – Firewall and DMZ and Screened Subnet

Lecture 11: 4- 11 – CC – Proxy, Load Balance devices, Email Security and VPN

Lecture 12: 4- 12 – CC – IPS and IDS

Lecture 13: 4- 13 – CC – Virtualization and SDDC

Lecture 14: 4- 14 – CC – Containers and Functions and Serverless Computing

Lecture 15: 4- 15 – CC – Cloud Computing

Lecture 16: 4- 16 – CC – Cloud Deployment Models

Lecture 17: 4- 17 – CC – Cloud Shared Responsibility Matrix

Lecture 18: 4- 18 – CC – Cloud Security and Advantages

Lecture 19: 4- 19 – CC – Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) & Cloud Access Security Broker

Lecture 20: 4- 20 – CC – OT & Industrial Control System and Purdu Model

Lecture 21: 4- 21 – CC – SDN – Software Defined Network

Lecture 22: A Real Case Study – Crowdstrike Outage July 2024

Chapter 6: Domain 5 : Security Operations – 18% – 13 Questions

Lecture 1: 5- 1 – CC – IT Asset Management

Lecture 2: 5- 2 – CC – Data Lifecycle

Lecture 3: 5- 3 – CC – Roles in Data and Assets Protection

Lecture 4: 5- 4 – CC – Data Disposal and Destruction

Lecture 5: 5- 5 – CC – Shadow IT

Lecture 6: 5- 6 – CC – Security Operation Centre – SOC

Lecture 7: 5- 7 – CC – EDR and NDR and XDR & SOAR