Unlock the Secrets of Cybersecurity: Master Privileged Access Management with Our Latest Industry-Relevant Curriculum
By the end of this course, you will have a comprehensive understanding of Privileged Access Management, enabling you to make informed decisions, implement best practices, and contribute to a more secure digital environment.
Get ready to embark on a journey towards PAM mastery and become a guardian of privileged access in today's cybersecurity landscape. Let's get started!
Explore 9 Comprehensive Modules: Industry-Based Curriculum in Privileged Access Management.
Module 1: Foundational Pillars of PAM
Introduction to PAM: Unveil the essence of PAM and discover why it is crucial in the realm of cybersecurity.
Discover PAM's crucial role in cybersecurity, explore its varied access types, and real-world applications. Learn and apply holistic PAM blending theory with practical insights for mastery.
Module 1, Part 2: Threat Landscape & PAM
Introduction to PAM part 2: Examine the evolving PAM threat landscape. Learn to effectively mitigate risks from negligent insiders, hacktivists, nation-states, organized crime, and the challenges of configuration errors and poor change management for robust cybersecurity.
Module 1, Part 3: PAM & Compliance Standards
Explore compliance standards such as GDPR, UAE NESA, SOX, PCI DSS, NIST, and the Centre for Internet Security (CIS) deeply. Gain comprehensive insights into aligning your PAM strategy with these essential regulations for optimal security and compliance.
Module 2, Part 1: Crafting a PAM Strategy
Defining PAM Program Projects: Highlight the importance of project scope and the critical factors influencing your PAM initiatives. Master access control with PoLP, RBAC, SoD, Two-Person Control, JEA, and Need-to-know Basis, ensuring robust security.
Module 2, Part 2: Initiating PAM Implementation
Understand the critical importance of stakeholder engagement, change management, and strategic communication. Thoroughly examine key business processes such as provisioning, deprovisioning, delegation, and joiner-mover-leaver processes for effective PAM.
Module 3, Part 1: Discovery & Assessment in PAM
Embrace the crucial discovery and assessment phase: Extract deep insights from access control lists, conduct role-based analysis reviews, scrutinize privileged user lists, perform thorough active directory reviews, and leverage IAM tools for enhanced PAM.
Module 3, Part 2: Tailoring PAM Design
"Embark on the journey to identify and categorize privileged accounts by risk, extracting critical info from SIEM, syslogs, user reviews, interviews, and surveys. Fully grasp the need for deep insights into accounts, assets, and applications.
Module 4: Protecting Assets
Explore diverse methods to shield privileged servers, industry control systems, database systems, and network devices. Immerse in protection methodologies like PoLP, Multi-Factor Authentication, Secure Remote Access, and Encryption.
Module 5: Automating PAM
Dive deep into PAM automation, understanding deployment models, performance optimization, scalability considerations, and existing IT infrastructure. Craft a compelling RFI document for PAM vendors and analyse top market players.
Module 6: Deployment Dynamics
Embrace a holistic deployment approach, exploring strategies such as phased, pilot, big bang, parallel, and incremental rollout. Dive into each method's nuances to identify the optimal path for your organization's unique needs and challenges.
Module 7: Monitoring, Reporting & Forensics
Grasp what, how, and why to monitor in PAM: user behaviour, access patterns, system interactions, performance indicators, data points for auditing, incident responses, forensics, monitoring methods, and best practices.
Module 8: PAM: The Road Ahead
Anticipate key industry trends.
Grasp the evolving PAM landscape, master compliance, explore the AI-PAM nexus, bridge IAM-PAM gaps, delve into next-gen automation, elevate PAM strategies in the cloud era, to embrace the zero trust model.
Module 9: PAM: The Road Ahead
This module is designed to guide you through essential questions and considerations during a Privileged Access Management (PAM) review. Conducting a PAM review and understanding the PAM maturity model are critical for assessing existing controls.