Welcome to RITx: CYBER501x Cybersecurity Fundamentals - Personal study notes!

This are my personal notes taken during the course RITx: CYBER501x Cybersecurity Fundamentals at edx.org.

Feel free to use them during your study and if you find it useful you can star this repository. If you find a mistake or you think I have missed something important I am more than happy to accept RP on this repo.

Notes are written in Sphinx documentation format. You can visit source notes at url: https://github.com/ricco386/CYBER501x-Cybersecurity-Fundamentals

Contents:

• Unit 2 - Computing Security Concepts and Problems
  • CIA model
  • AAA model
  • Threat Agents
• Unit 3 - Cryptography
  • Symmetric encryption
  • Asymmetric encryption
  • Hashing
  • Certificate Authority
• Unit 4 - Networking 1
  • MAC Address
  • IP Address
  • Subnet Mask
  • Local Communication
  • Remote Communication
  • Packet Routing
• Unit 5 - Networking 2
  • Ports
  • TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
  • UDP - User Datagram Protocol
  • RTSP - Real Time Streaming Protocol
  • How Switches Work
  • Autonomous Systems
  • IGP - Interior Gateway protocol
  • EGP - Exterior Gateway Protocol
• Unit 6 - Systems Administration
  • RARP - Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
  • BootP - Bootstrap particle
  • DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
  • DNS - Domain Name System
• Unit 7 - Detection and Prevention
  • Firewalls
  • DPI - Deep packet inspection
  • DCI - Deep content inspection
  • IDS - Intrusion detection system
  • IPS - Intrusion prevention system
  • Honeypots and Deception Software
  • Social engineering
• Unit 8 - Malware and Forensics
  • Virus
  • Worm
  • Logic bomb
  • RAT - Remote Access Trojan
  • Rootkit
  • Backdoor
  • Spyware
  • Adware
  • PUP - potentially unwanted program
  • Phishing
  • Spearphishing
  • Whaling
  • Pharming
  • Watering Hole
  • Ransomware
  • Digital Forensics
  • Digital Evidence
  • Forensics Investigations
  • Anti-forensics

My personal notes from other RITx Cybersecurity MicroMasters® Program courses:

• CYBER501x Cybersecurity Fundamentals notes

• CYBER502x Computer Forensics

• CYBER503x Cybersecurity Risk Management

My other personal study notes from penetration testing

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