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- Duration
- 2h 33m
- Difficulty
- Novice
- Instructor
- Keith Bogart
- Videos
- 8
- Quizzes
- 5
- CPE Credits
- 3
- Published
- Jul 24, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 08, 2025
Cyber Security Essentials: Normalizing & Analyzing Data
Cyber Security Essentials: Normalizing and Analyzing Data helps learners understand why raw security data must be cleaned, structured, and interpreted before it can support accurate analysis. The course introduces key concepts such as data normalization, context preservation, log review, event comparison, and analytical thinking used by cybersecurity analysts. Learners explore how poor data quality can hide indicators of compromise, create misleading results, or make investigations more difficult. The course also explains how consistent formatting, reliable context, and structured review can improve detection, investigation, and decision-making. By focusing on practical analysis workflows, this course gives learners a strong foundation for turning collected telemetry, logs, and security events into useful insights that support better threat detection and response.
Instructor
Keith Bogart
Course Instructor
Keith started his networking career as customer service representative at Cisco Systems in 1996. His desire to learn more soon led him to a position as a Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) engineer on the “Dial-Access” team, and within six months he had obtained his Dial-ISP CCIE. He later became a network consulting engineer and obtained his CCNA certification while teaching the technologies to Cisco employees during his lunch breaks. Keith was the first instructor on Cisco’s TAC Training team, where he taught a wide range of internetworking topics and later developed and taught other courses such as routing protocols, LAN switching, MPLS, 802.1x, and CCNA. After almost 17 years with Cisco, Keith joined a small startup and focused on 802.11 Wi-Fi technologies, during which time he obtained his CWNA certification. He is now very happy to be working as an instructor for Routing & Switching. Keith lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, son, and daughter. When he is not teaching Bootcamps, Keith can be found at home with his family, reading, or working in the yard.