System Fundamentals For Cyber Security

Table of Contents
Introduction
 * Cyber Threat, 7 Principles of IA, Digital Forensics

Digital Data
 * Binary, Hex, ASCII, Raw Data v. Compressed Data

Disks
 * Disk Geometry, Logical Areas of a Disk, Disk Formatting, RAID

Computer Hardware
 * Motherboard, CPU, Memory, BIOS, I/O, Storage Devices

Operating Systems
 * Functions, Processes and Resources, File Systems, Booting, Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Forensics
 * Forensics Procedures, Data Acquisition, Evidence Analysis, Network Forensics, Web & Artifacts, Email & Artifacts, P2P & Artifacts

Virtual Environments
 * Virtual Machines, Remote Desktops

Networking
 * Network Devices, Network Cabling, Wireless, Network Topologies, Network Addressing, DCHP, OSI Model

Data Protection/Privacy
 * PKI, VPN

Authentication
 * Password Protection, Password Cracking, Rainbow Tables

Data Confidentiality
 * Encryption, Steganography, Hashing