Patching your operating system is a good way to stay ahead of the bad guys. In this video, you’ll learn how operating systems are patched and why the patching process may not be as easy as it looks.
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How can you keep the bad guys from infecting your computer? In this video, you’ll learn about anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, pop-up blockers, and host-based firewalls.
An operating system has hundreds of configuration options that can affect the security of the platform. In this video, you’ll learn about the customization of user rights, log settings, file permissions, and many more operating system options.
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The complexity of mobile device security is compounded when the user community takes advantage of “bring your own device.” In this video, you’ll learn some security best practices around securing these user-owned mobile devices.
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Managing the applications running on mobile devices requires some additional security planning. In this video, you’ll learn about key management, managing credentials, geo-tagging, and application whitelisting.
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Mobile devices have completely changed our perspective of network security. In this video, you’ll learn about the important aspects of securing a device that is constantly moving and outside the direct control of your organization.
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Should you validate input data on the server, or on the client? In this video you’ll learn the advantages and disadvantages of using both of these validation strategies.
Server-side vs. Client-side Validation – CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 4.1 Read More »
Our databases are the core of our applications. In this video, you’ll learn about SQL and NoSQL database technologies and the type of data we would store in each type of database.
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A patching strategy for an application should be well designed. In this video, you’ll learn about application patch management, how different operating systems are patched, and some of the challenges with maintaining a well patched computing environment.
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You must first determine a baseline for application security before you can begin the process of hardening the technology. In this video, you’ll learn some best practices for security baselining and some techniques for hardening the operating system and application environment.
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