Security Fundamentals in AI Era, Real breaches, ordinary fixes: MFA, patching, segmentation, logging, backups and the commands that apply them.
Course Description
Disclaimer: This course contains the use of artificial intelligence
Most breaches don’t start with a genius hacker. They start with something ordinary: a missed patch, a password without a second factor, a storage bucket left public, a backup nobody ever tested.
This course takes real incidents, including Colonial Pipeline, Equifax, Capital One, SolarWinds, Log4j, Change Healthcare, Storm-0558 and CrowdStrike, and asks one question of each: which boring control would have stopped it?
You’ll learn to think like a defender, then work through identity and MFA, patching and exposure, network segmentation, cloud misconfiguration, the software supply chain, and detection, response and recovery. Every lesson ends with something concrete: a command to run, a report to check, a decision to make.
What makes this course different
- Every lesson is traced to named primary sources, not opinion
- Real command-line demos on Windows and Linux, run read-only and safely
- In-video decision points where you commit to a choice before you hear the answer
- Four branching scenarios set at a fictional company, Kestrel, where your choices in week one decide what you can recover later
- A final hardening checklist: ten commands, each mapped to the breach it would have shortened
By the end, you won’t just know the fixes. You’ll know how to check whether they’re in place, and where to start this week.
