Cybersecurity Fundamentals for IT Technicians: Introduction

Welcome to Cybersecurity Fundamentals for IT Technicians. My name is Jason Gooley and we are going to be covering some of the cool things that cybersecurity brings to the table and how to protect your environments, but also understand what you need to know to be an IT support technician and really fundamentally get to the bottom of why cybersecurity is so relevant and top of mind these days. of the things that we're going to cover, not only our cybersecurity fundamentals, but we're going to also talk about things like understanding some of the most common threats that you can see out in the environment in the wild today. Some of the investigative tools that you would use in the procedures and processes to find and thwart or stop those particular threats. We're also going to talk about how do we scan and look for malware in your environment, as well as what are some of Some of the things you can do to keep good password hygiene, right? Making sure that you have best practices from a security perspective by having really rough and tough passwords to guess. Then we're going to talk about things like social engineering, how we can maybe impersonate somebody or get somebody to let you into their environment and why that's frowned upon. And then we're going to close it out by talking about some things like personally identifiable information and sensitive data, and how do we keep that out of the hands of the nefarious? So nothing left to do except to begin.