Intro to IT Information Security Fundamentals Training

Description

This foundational Information Security training prepares aspiring IT professionals to think with and speak about the most important fundamentals in information security like triple-A concepts, password best practices, and balancing confidentiality with availability.

This Information Security Fundamentals course won’t turn you into a white hat hacker overnight, or immediately prepare you to be a security engineer for a massive enterprise network. But it will do two important things.

First, it’ll teach you enough about the basics of information security for you to decide if those are careers you want to aim for.

Second, it’ll explain the fundamentals and the vocabulary of the IT security field so you can take part in otherwise challenging conversations. After this training, you’ll have a firm grip on information security principles and be ready to make use of them in your own career.

For anyone who leads an IT team, this CompTIA training can be used to onboard new or aspiring IT professionals, curated into individual or team training plans, or as a CompTIA reference resource.
Information Security Fundamentals: What You Need to Know

This foundational security training has videos that cover basic security concepts including:

Thinking with and recognizing confidentiality, integrity and availability concerns
Securing devices and naming device use best practices
Summarizing behavioral security concepts
Discussing authentication, authorization and accounting concepts
Explaining password and encryption best practices

Who Should Take Information Security Fundamentals Training?

This security training is considered foundational-level CompTIA training, which means it was designed for non-technical professionals or aspiring IT professionals with no experience at all.

Basic security user training. Of all the IT topics a non-technical professional could learn, IT security fundamentals might be the most important. This information security course explains the most vital concepts for securing the data your company relies on. Understand password practices, recognize what a firewall is doing, and recognize how important removing unwanted software is after you take this training.

New or aspiring IT professionals. If you’re planning on working in the IT field, an understanding of security fundamentals is essential. This information security course not only builds to a future career in cybersecurity, it’ll also make you a better employee overall. You’ll understand the importance of network security decisions and how you and your team’s actions contribute to overall digital security.