COURSE OVERVIEW
Course Duration: 5 Days (±3–4 hours per day)
Target Audience:
- Junior to mid-level IT professionals
- System administrators
- Developers and testers
- Project managers and business analysts
- Non-technical professionals working with IT systems
Course Description:
This short course provides learners with a practical understanding of IT security vulnerabilities across systems, networks, applications, cloud environments, and human processes. Learners will gain the skills to identify, assess, and communicate vulnerabilities and understand basic mitigation strategies.
Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain core information security principles
- Identify common IT security vulnerabilities
- Understand how vulnerabilities lead to security incidents
- Interpret vulnerability risks and impacts
- Propose basic mitigation and control measures
- Communicate vulnerabilities to technical and business stakeholders
COURSE STRUCTURE
Day 1
Foundations of Information Security & Vulnerabilities
- Lesson 1.1 Introduction to Information Security
- Lesson 1.2 The CIA Triad
- Lesson 1.3 Security Terminology
Day 2
System & Network Vulnerabilities
- Lesson 2.1 Operating System Vulnerabilities
- Lesson 2.2 Network Vulnerabilities
- Lesson 2.3 Common Attacks (Conceptual)
Day 3
Application & Data Vulnerabilities
- Lesson 3.1 Application Vulnerabilities
- Lesson 3.2 Data Vulnerabilities
Day 4
Human, Process & Cloud Vulnerabilities
- Lesson 4.1 Human Vulnerabilities
- Lesson 4.2 Process Vulnerabilities
- Lesson 4.3 Cloud Vulnerabilities
- Lesson 4.4 Risk Assessment Basics
Day 5
Vulnerability Management & Final Assessment
- Lesson 5.1 Vulnerability Management Lifecycle
- Lesson 5.2 Vulnerability Scanning & Reporting
- Lesson 5.3 Communicating Vulnerabilities
