Security Fundamentals
Questions You'll Answer
What is the difference between Authentication (AuthN) and Authorization (AuthZ)?
What is the CIA Triad (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability)?
Why is HTTPs essential and what are SSL/TLS certificates?
What are the OWASP Top 10 web vulnerabilities?
What is Social Engineering and why is the human the weakest link?
What is Zero Trust architecture?
How do password managers and 2FA/MFA work?
What You'll Learn
Understand the basics of digital hygiene and organizational security
Differentiate between compliance and actual security posture
Learn the common attack vectors (SQL Injection, XSS, Phishing)
Understand the importance of Identity Access Management (IAM)
Hard Truths
Security is often seen as a blocker to speed, until you get hacked and speed drops to zero.
Compliance (ticking boxes) is NOT the same as Security.
Accepting a risk ('Risk Acceptance') without understanding the technical complexity of the exploit is like signing a blank check to a hacker.
Security policies that make it hard to do the right thing (e.g., blocking package managers or documentation sites) actually decrease security by forcing developers to use 'Shadow IT' on personal devices.
A 50-page penetration test report is useless if the findings are 'accepted as risk' and never fixed.
Developers often trust user input too much. Never trust anything the client sends.
Phishing tests are annoying, but one click typically compromises the entire network.