Trojan Horses are a special kind of malware that manages to infect our machines by tricking us into running the malicious software. In this video, you’ll learn about trojans and backdoors, and I’ll demonstrate how an application posing as a game can quickly infect our computer.
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Adware and spyware is notorious for causing performance problems and application incompatibilities. In this video, you’ll learn about adware, spyware, and some techniques for identifying an adware or spyware infection.
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Viruses are well known for corrupting our operating systems and documents. In this video, you’ll learn how viruses work and how worms are able to replicate without human intervention.
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Malware is one of the most prevalent forms of malicious software attacks. In this video, you’ll learn about malware types and some of the problems that occur when malware is installed onto our computers.
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The AIC triad is an important concept in security. In this video, you’ll learn about confidentiality, integrity, availability, and safety.
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If you’re managing a disaster recovery plan, then you’ll need some off-site options. In this video, you’ll learn about the advantages and disadvantages of cold sites, hot sites, and warm sites.
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If you’re planning to maintain uptime and availability of your computing resources, then you’ll almost certainly need to implement redundant systems. In this video, you’ll learn about redundancy, fault tolerant systems, and high availability infrastructures.
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Instead of performing a full-blow disaster drill, you can validate your plans using a tabletop exercise. In this video, you’ll learn about tabletop exercises and some techniques for running tabletop exercises in your own organization.
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Part of a disaster recovery plan is the organization’s strategy for succession planning. In this video, you’ll learn the important parts of a company’s formal succession plan.
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There are a number of formal processes that you can follow for IT contingency planning. In this video, you’ll learn about some well-documented contingency strategies from the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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