Cybersecurity Advanced Learning Path - "Know yourself, know your enemy, and you will win the battle"

An information system is made of a wide variety of constituents: hardware, software, network, data, people… All these have to be properly protected, since a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. In his famous ‘Art of War’, Sun Tzu wrote “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” Thus protecting yourself means not only understanding where your values and vulnerabilities are, but also how an attacker could be able to reach and exploit them. It is thus critical to have a good grasp of what can constitute a target as well as the attack vectors that would lead to it. In this learning path, we will go deeper into some methodological aspects of cybersecurity. First of all, we will get into standards and approaches to manage risk, the basis for securing an information system. We will also cover more technical aspects, like software security, attack mechanisms, penetration tools and platforms.