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Cybersecurity

Location: United States
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Discover Cybersecurity at Telstra!

Welcome to the Telstra Cybersecurity Program! We are so excited to have you here!

Our heritage is proudly Australian, but we’re creating a global footprint. With a workforce of employees across more than 20 countries, we’re working towards our vision of becoming a world-class technology company that empowers people to connect.

During this program, you will get the opportunity to step into the shoes of a Telstra team member and complete tasks that replicate the work that our Cybersecurity team does every day. You’ll learn how to communicate, mitigate and reflect on a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

We hope this program provides a great resource for you to up-skill and strengthen your resume as you explore career options and a potential career at Telstra!

This program is self-paced. It takes approximately 1-2 hours to complete.

Skills Learned:

  • Responding to a malware attack
    An alert has come into the Security Operation Centre (SOC). Triage the alert and respond to the malware attack by contacting the appropriate team.

    • Cybersecurity
    • Incident Management
    • Incident Response
    • Research
    • Communication
    • Data Analysis
    • Teamwork
  • Analysing the attack
    Analyse the data of the malware attack to identify how the malware spreads. Find patterns used by the attacker so that we can prepare a firewall rule to stop the spread of the virus.

    • Network Analysis
    • Cybersecurity
    • Data Analysis
    • Research
    • Communication
    • Teamwork
  • (Technical) Mitigate the malware attack
    Using the patterns you’ve identified, use Python to write a firewall rule to technically mitigate the malware from spreading.

    • Software Development
    • Python Programming
    • Security Engineering
    • Solution Architecture
    • Design Thinking
    • Problem Solving
  • Incident Postmortem
    Now that the incident has been resolved, create a postmortem to reflect on the details of the incident.

    • Incident Analysis
    • Root Cause Analysis
    • Communication
    • Strategy
    • Corporate Governance
    • Risk Management
    • Compliance Management

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