From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 3 Security Architecture and Engineering
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Hardware and firmware security
From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 3 Security Architecture and Engineering
Hardware and firmware security
- [Instructor] Some attacks may target the very basic building blocks of a computing system that worked before the operating system even loads. Operating systems are special pieces of software, but they're large and complex and they must be stored on disc. When you turn a computer on, it doesn't yet have the operating system loaded. And one of its first tasks during the boot process is to load the operating system from disk and start it up. Now that might leave you asking a logical question. If the operating system hasn't loaded what software is actually loading the operating system? The answer for many years was something called the Basic Input/Output System or BIOS. BIOS is a lightweight operating system that's stored on firmware inside the computer. That's the very first thing to load when the computer starts. BIOS contains the basic functionality necessary for the computer to access its boot disk and then load the full…
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What is the cloud?3m 53s
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Cloud computing roles2m 35s
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Drivers for cloud computing3m 17s
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Multitenant computing2m 15s
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Virtualization4m 48s
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Desktop and application virtualization2m 38s
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Cloud compute resources7m 52s
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Containerization1m 58s
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Cloud activities and the Cloud Reference Architecture2m 49s
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Cloud deployment models2m 45s
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Cloud service categories5m 21s
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Edge and fog computing1m 46s
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Trust models2m 52s
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PKI and digital certificates4m 5s
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Hash functions7m 38s
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Digital signatures3m 51s
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Digital signature standard1m 40s
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Create a digital certificate4m 55s
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Revoke a digital certificate1m 41s
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Certificate stapling2m 29s
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Certificate authorities6m 13s
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Certificate subjects3m 35s
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Certificate types2m 55s
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Certificate formats2m 30s
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