CoursesCyber Defense for Financial Trust

Cyber Defense for Financial Trust

Course goal — Teach identity security, MFA, and cyber defense for financial systems. Level — Professional · Duration — ~7 hours · Format — Lessons + labs + final project

Who this is for

  • Identity security engineers and IAM administrators
  • SOC analysts and incident response teams
  • Zero Trust architects and platform engineers
  • Banking and fintech security leaders

Modules

  1. Identity security fundamentals
  2. Phishing-resistant MFA and passkeys (WebAuthn)
  3. Session risk detection
  4. Account takeover prevention
  5. Device trust
  6. Zero Trust architecture
  7. Continuous authentication
  8. Incident response for identity events

Hands-on labs

  • Configure an MFA policy with step-up authentication
  • Detect risky login behavior in session logs
  • Build a session risk rule
  • Design a Zero Trust access workflow

Final project

Create a cyber defense plan for a digital banking platform, covering MFA, session protection, device trust, Zero Trust, and incident response.

Knowledge check

A 25-question quiz covering MFA, session risk, Zero Trust, and incident response. 75% passing score.

Outcomes

  • Secure identity beyond login with continuous authentication
  • Apply phishing-resistant MFA and passkeys at scale
  • Architect Zero Trust access for regulated financial workloads
  • Detect and respond to account takeover and session attacks

Prepares you for

  • Wardya Certified Professional: Identity Security
  • Wardya Certified Expert: Trust Intelligence Architect

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