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Advanced Cybersecurity

Lesson 5.6 Internal Threats

Description

In this lesson, students learn about how to increase the security of a network by keeping individual, physical devices secure. Students learn about best practices for ensuring only authorized users log into a device as well as consider how user permissions and data loss prevention (DLP) can ensure sensitive data remains secure.


Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Explain how the principle of least privilege relates to account management
  • Describe best practices for setting strong passwords and using passwords in a variety of settings, such as setting a BIOS/UEFI password and a screensaver password