Upon successful completion of the course, will: develop a security mindset that empowers them to work more securely as both a developer and a user; recognize and differentiate between cyber security terms used in the profession; recognize system wide threats and vulnerabilities and use common hacking techniques; distinguish between common defense tools for endpoints, servers and cloud computing; simulate a network environment using virtualization in order to monitor intrusions and how they are detected by  antivirus, anti-malware and firewalls; manage and recognize cyber security risks to valued assets at intrusion points in a network; implement the  requirements of ISO and GDPR; create a risk assessment and mitigation strategy; use basic hacking tools to discover vulnerabilities; implement operating system security hardening and patching; use GPO to implement technical and operational controls; and explain cryptology and of the importance of encrypting secure data.