Welcome to week 2

Welcome back! As a security analyst, your job isn't just keeping organization safe. Your role is much more important. You're also helping to keep people safe. Breaches that affect customers', vendors', and employees' data can cause significant damage to people's financial stability and their reputations. As an analyst, your day-to-day work will help keep people and organizations safe.

In this section of the course, we'll discuss security frameworks, controls, and design principles in more detail, and how they can be applied to security audits to help protect organizations and people.

Keeping customer information confidential is a crucial part of my daily work at Google. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework plays a large part in this. The framework ensures the protection and compliance of customer tools and personal work devices through the use of security controls.

Welcome to the world of security frameworks and controls. Let's get started!