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Do You Need to Renew Your CompTIA Security+ Certification? Consider CySA+

12/20/2018 by Chris Becher

The CompTIA CySA+ Cybersecurity Analyst course is designed for IT security analysts, vulnerability analysts, or threat intelligence analysts. CySA+ is the most up-to-date security analyst certification that covers advanced persistent threats in a post-2014 cybersecurity environment.
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EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures v8

9/17/2014 by LRS Education Services

Are you an IT security officer, auditor, security professional, site administrator, or someone who is concerned about the integrity of your organizations network infrastructure? If so, the Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures course mission is to educate, introduce and demonstrate hacking tools for penetration testing purposes only. Prior to attending this course, you will be asked to sign an agreement stating that you will not use the newly acquired skills for illegal or malicious attacks and you will not use such tools in an attempt to compromise any computer system, and to indemnify EC-Council with respect to the use or misuse of these tools, regardless of intent. It is suggested that all attendees have at least two years of IT security experience and a strong working knowledge of TCP/IP. The CompTIA® Security+ course is highly recommended as well.

Recovering Windows from Damaging Viruses

3/5/2012 by LRS Education Services

One of the most devastating types of viruses you can encounter now days is the type that looks like a virus removal program. It includes pop-ups advising you run scans and “Your system is severally compromised…etc”. But in fact, those pop-ups and warnings ARE the virus and by the time you see the pop-ups and warning, the damage is already done to your system.

Office 365 security – do you know where to start?

Microsoft’s cybersecurity team has provided some top recommendations for implementing security to protect your Office 365 environment. The Office 365 security roadmap provides these recommendations in a staged timeframe so you can easily identify where your priorities should be in the first 30-90 days and beyond

NIST Cybersecurity Framework – A Risk Assessment Process

In partnership with itSM Solutions LLC and UMass Lowell, a NSA/DHS National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research (CAE-R), LRS Education Services is proud to offer the NIST Cybersecurity Professional (NCSP) training curriculum. The curriculum is designed to train how to engineer and implement a cybersecurity program to protect critical assets using the NCSF.

MS-500 Microsoft 365 Security Administration Track.…is this course for you?

Whether you are a seasoned administrator looking to confirm or polish your skills and/or prepare for an exam, or an admin who is fairly new to the world of identity management, security and compliance in Microsoft Azure and/or Office 365 and wanting to get some resources to help you advance your skills and maybe eventually go through the certification process, I think this course has some very valuable lessons to offer.

Fun with Kali

Admittedly the vast majority of my technical background is on the Windows side. Like many of you I’ve spent years in the field and through training courses improving my Windows skills and gathering a bunch of certifications from Microsoft. Windows is powerful and ubiquitous. I have a great time working in Windows networks and teaching Microsoft courses. But sometimes we all need to broaden our horizons.

Are You Ready To Assess The State of Your Cybersecurity?

We are very proud of our NIST CSF courses. The reviews have been fantastic! Many organizations take that knowledge and create or improve a cybersecurity program on their own. In the Bootcamp/Practitioner classes we get very specific as to what that program could contain and how it might be organized. However, we’ve heard from clients that they want more. They need a partner to come alongside and help them through the process of discovering exactly where they are in cybersecurity. What’s going well, what are the gaps and what should be done to close them?