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
- Identity security fundamentals
- Phishing-resistant MFA and passkeys (WebAuthn)
- Session risk detection
- Account takeover prevention
- Device trust
- Zero Trust architecture
- Continuous authentication
- 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