MAD Training
Training is a vital part of implementing and sustaining organizational security policies, processes, and standards effectively. Government agencies and corporations throughout the world trust MAD Security and The Hacker Academy to fulfill their training needs and requirements. Our security curriculum has courses in all areas of Information Security from awareness to advanced hacking.
In addition to the world-renowned courses offered by The Hacker Academy, we specialize in providing information security training with a focus on in-depth analysis and hands-on training. By producing the best security courses that closely fit real-time information security issues, we assure that all aspects of our training are of the highest quality.
Our courses are tailored to meet the specific needs of any organization so that students get the maximum ROI from their training. Our educational offerings can be delivered through different methods from lectures to workshops either in person or in some cases online. All of our offerings are designed to arm our students with the knowledge necessary to immediately practice, implement, and deploy what they have learned.
Here are several of our IT Security Training offers:
- The Hacker Academy
- Security Awareness
- Role-based Training for Security
- Secure Coding and Security QA
Security Awareness Training
The importance of training your own people on security awareness is often lost in the shuffle when deciding what security solutions and products to buy. This is interesting based on the recent trend in information security as the client-side (human) attack is more prevalent than ever. Most organizations have beefed up there network and perimeters, attackers are attacking people in order to break the infrastructure. Security Awareness Programs and Training help diminish the overall security risk to an organization by integrating precautions into people’s business decisions. At MAD Security we have made security awareness “sticky” for employees of many organizations. We have done this through entertaining and informative videos to lecture based presentations as well as hands-on seminars. At MAD we have a unique security awareness solution for any organization, ask to see some of our past examples and metrics.
Role-based Training for Security
It is important when planning a role-based training program to first identify who needs to be trained and on what. We recognize that all organizations are at different maturity levels when it comes to IT Security Training, which is why we can be as involved as necessary. MAD performs an in depth analysis of the job functions within your organization and recommendations from industry best practices in developing role-based security training. MAD Role-Based IT Security Training can involve one or all of the following levels:
- Executive Personnel – Consists of Senior Executive Level and Management personnel whose job functions may include: IT management activities that typically extend and apply to an entire organization or major components of an organization.
- Security Professionals - Consists of personnel whose job function may include: Ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems, networks, and data through the planning, analysis, development, implementation, maintenance, and enhancement of information systems and organizational security programs, policies, procedures, and tools.
- Technical Personnel – Consists of personnel whose job functions may include any of the following or more:
- Design, documentation, development, modification, testing, installation, implementation, and support of new or existing applications software.
- Planning, installation, configuration, testing, implementation, and management of the systems environment in support of the organization’s IT architecture and business needs.
- Planning, analysis, design, development, testing, quality assurance, configuration, installation, implementation, integration, maintenance, and/or management of networked systems used for the transmission of information in voice, data, and/or video formats.
- Technical planning, design, development, testing, implementation, and management of internet including systems/applications development and technical management of web sites.
- Planning and coordinating the installation, testing, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of hardware and software systems.
Secure Coding and Secure QA
Building secure software and writing secure code from the beginning is the best way to protect your infrastructure. MAD has developed some of the most up-to-date curriculum and training classes around writing secure code and web application security. These classes have been used throughout government agencies and corporations world-wide. These classes are developed from a general overview class to specific customized training depending on the needs of your specific organization.
Ask MAD how we have worked with organizations like yours. We would be happy to share our knowledge, experience and past performance.
