Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Planning for When Things Go Wrong
Where continuity and recovery plans fit in protecting an organization, what goes into each, and how they differ.
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Data and Asset Classification: Not All Information Is Created Equal
Public, private, sensitive and confidential: how the four data types map to low- and high-level assets, and why classification tells you where to focus.
Debugging in Python: How to Find and Fix Your Mistakes
Syntax errors, logic errors and exceptions, plus print statements, debuggers and a word on AI coding assistants.
Working with Files in Python: Reading Logs Like a Security Analyst
Opening, reading, writing and parsing files, then building a script that flags accounts with repeated failed logins.
Automating Security Tasks with Python: Putting It All Together
Login timeouts, suspicious-login tracking and failed-password monitoring: three security scripts built from the basics.
Python Strings for Beginners: A Security Analyst’s Toolkit
Indices, slices, len(), str(), concatenation and string methods, with a sample device ID as the running example.
Python Cheat Sheet: Security Automation
Everything from Course 7 of the Google Cybersecurity Certificate in one place: conditionals, loops, functions, regex, files, parsing and debugging.
Network Security 101: Locks, Rooms, and Guards
Firewalls, network segmentation and web application firewalls, explained with no tech degree required.