Welcome to the Security Principles for the Certified in Cybersecurity course.
You're embarking on an exciting journey as we learn about securing our
systems and data and protecting what is important,
the assets of people and the organization.
This is the first course in the certification path,
and it sets the foundation for the rest of the courses to follow.
This course is worth 26% of the exam content.
This is a course on cybersecurity,
so it's only fitting to start with a simple question.
What is security?
I invite you to think about that for a moment.
What does security mean to you?
We hear many answers, positive answers like safety,
confidence, and trust, but we hear other answers as well.
The guard at the front door, something that gets in the way of doing my job,
restrictions and passwords, and most surprisingly,
it's not my job.
Oh, but security is fun, it's a challenge,
the interaction between good and evil, the confidence and fear,
technology and people.
Let's examine the positive results and benefits of security,
preserving the assets of individuals and organizations and protecting jobs
and building resilience into our systems and being proud of how we can make
the world a better and safer place each day.
To do this, we need to start with having a common vocabulary,
using terms the same way with similar definitions for keywords and
making sure that everyone understands what a word means and one
another when we're working together.
We have divided this security principles course into four modules.
The first is Information Security Concepts and Governance.
Then we will look at Risk Management.
We will address risk through Security Controls in the third module,
and then review the ISC squared Code of Ethics in the final module.
At the end,
there is a domain summary to highlight important points and a study guide with
some sample question for you to review your understanding.
Let's get started with the first module,
Information Security Concepts and Governance.