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Week 1 Cybersecurity Threat Landscape Questions

 

Week 1 Security 101 Homework: Security Reporting

Congratulations on completing the first week of your cybersecurity program!

We covered a lot this week, especially in the Security Challenge activities. It begs the question: how do security professionals stay informed and updated on the threats, defenses, and infosec information necessary to be effective in the field? The answer is by reading and staying up to date on prominent reports, blogs, and research papers.

In your first homework, you will read through four      prominent security reports and answer questions in order to get a basic      understanding of the market. These reports contain a lot of information      and some of the language might feel esoteric.

The goal of this assignment is for you to get exposure      and learn how to navigate through these reports. This is a critical skill.

This assignment is report-heavy, but know that research      and reporting are massively important to the work of a cybersecurity      professional.

In addition to the reports, there are three worksheets      that you will fill out while reading through the papers. These should      guide what you pay attention to while reading the reports, and should help      you understand the research.

Instructions

You have been provided the following reports. Download them to get started.

Symntec Internet Security Threat Report (Volume 24 |      February 2019)

Akamai Security Year in Review (2019)

  • Akamai State of the Internet (Volume 5 | Issue 1)

Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report

  • Complete the following worksheets as you navigate through the papers. These worksheets should help you identify the topics and keywords to pay close attention to.

Worksheet 1: Symantec

Worksheet 3: Verizon