SEC573: Automating Information Security with Python

Relevant Job Roles

Data Analysis (OPM 422)

Responsible for analyzing data from multiple disparate sources to provide cybersecurity and privacy insight. Designs and implements custom algorithms, workflow processes, and layouts for complex, enterprise-scale data sets used for modeling, data mining, and research purposes.

Technology Research and Development (OPM 661)

Responsible for conducting software and systems engineering and software systems research to develop new capabilities with fully integrated cybersecurity. Conducts comprehensive technology research to evaluate potential vulnerabilities in cyberspace systems.

Malware Analyst

Malware analysts face attackers’ capabilities head-on, ensuring the fastest and most effective response to and containment of a cyber-attack. You look deep inside malicious software to understand the nature of the threat – how it got in, what flaw it exploited, and what it has done, is trying to do, or has the potential to achieve.

Digital Forensic Analyst Training, Salary, and Career Path

This expert applies digital forensic skills to a plethora of media that encompass an investigation. The practice of being a digital forensic examiner requires several skill sets, including evidence collection, computer, smartphone, cloud, and network forensics, and an investigative mindset. These experts analyze compromised systems or digital media involved in an investigation that can be used to determine what really happened. Digital media contain footprints that physical forensic data and the crime scene may not include.

Digital Forensics (OPM 212)

Responsible for analyzing digital evidence from computer security incidents to derive useful information in support of system and network vulnerability mitigation.

Military Operations / Law Enforcement Agents

Execute digital forensic operations under demanding conditions, rapidly extracting critical intelligence from diverse devices. Leverage advanced threat hunting and malware analysis skills to neutralize sophisticated cyber adversaries.

Vulnerability Assessment

This role tests IT systems and networks and assesses their threats and vulnerabilities. Find the SANS courses that map to the Vulnerability Assessment SCyWF Work Role.

Media Exploitation Analyst

This expert applies digital forensic skills to a plethora of media that encompasses an investigation. If investigating computer crime excites you, and you want to make a career of recovering file systems that have been hacked, damaged or used in a crime, this may be the path for you. In this position, you will assist in the forensic examinations of computers and media from a variety of sources, in view of developing forensically sound evidence.

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  Python is a tool required in the world of InfoSec, and SEC573 helped me build that tool belt.

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  Very well put together. I have been afraid of learning how to code for years. Within the first days' worth of material my mind has been put at ease.

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  SEC573 is excellent. I went from having almost no Python coding ability to being able to write functional and useful programs.