CRISC 2023: Attack Mitigations

Skillsoft issued completion badges are earned based on viewing the percentage required or receiving a passing score when assessment is required. Understanding the characteristics of various types of attacks goes a long way in helping cybersecurity analysts prevent and detect malicious activity. Knowledge of techniques and attacks, such as buffer overflows and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, facilitates mitigation planning. In this course, you will begin by exploring SYN flood attacks and their relationship with the three-way Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) handshake. Next, you will spoof network traffic and discover different types of buffer overflow attacks. Then you will investigate DDoS attack mitigations and run a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against a website. Finally, you will compromise a client web browser, run a structured query language (SQL) injection and reverse shell attack, and crack Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) passwords. This course can be used to prepare for the ISACA® Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC®) certification.