Course Overview
This course explores cyber trends, threats, and staying safe in cyberspace, and protecting personal and company data.
Benefits
Today’s interconnected world makes everyone more susceptible to cyber-attacks. Learn how to protect your personal data and privacy online and in social media, and why more and more IT jobs require cybersecurity awareness and understanding.
Explore Opportunities in Technology
- Explore the world of cybersecurity and how it relates to YOU
- Develop your cybersecurity basics for a secure and safe digital life
- Start exploring the many career possibilities these skills can open up for you
Course Details
Target Audience: | Secondary and 2-Year college students, general audience |
Estimated Time to Completion: | 20 hours |
Prerequisites: | IT Fundamentals |
Course Delivery: | Instructor-led or Self-paced |
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Course Recognitions: | Certificate of Completion, Digital Badge |
Recommended Next Course: | Cybersecurity Essentials |
Course Overview
This course covers essential knowledge for all cybersecurity domains including information security, systems security, network security, ethics and laws, and defense and mitigation techniques used in protecting businesses.
Benefits
The demand for security professionals continues to grow. Develop a foundational understanding of cybercrime, security principles, technologies, and procedures used to defend networks.
Prepare for Careers
- Build your cybersecurity foundation
- Take the next step in exploring the many career possibilities in cybersecurity
- See if you want to pursue job roles in networking or cybersecurity
Course Details
Target Audience: | Secondary and 2-year college vocational students audience |
Estimated Time to Completion: | 30 hours |
Prerequisites: | Introduction to Cybersecurity |
Course Delivery: | Instructor-led or Self-paced |
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Course Recognitions: | Certificate of Completion, Digital Badge |
Recommended Next Course: | CyberOps Associate, Cloud Security, Network Security, or IoT Security |
Course Overview
This course introduces the core security concepts and skills needed to monitor, detect, analyze, and respond to cybercrime, cyberespionage, insider threats, advanced persistent threats, regulatory requirements, and other cybersecurity issues facing organizations.
Benefits
Gain practical, hands-on skills needed to maintain and ensure security operational readiness of secure networked systems.
Prepare for Careers
- Develop skills for entry-level security operations center (SOC) jobs
- Prepare for CyberOps Associate certification
- Pursue a career in cybersecurity operations, a rapidly-growing, exciting new area that spans all industries
Course Details
Target Audience: | Students enrolled in technology degree programs at higher education institutions; IT professionals who wants to pursue a career in Security Operations |
Estimated Time to Completion: | 70 hours |
Prerequisites: | Introduction to Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Essentials |
Course Delivery: | Instructor-led |
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Course Recognitions: | Certificate of Completion, Letter of Merit, Digital Badge |
Recommended Next Course: | Cloud Security, Network Security, IoT Security |
Course Overview
This course introduces the fundamentals of cloud computing and skills needed to secure an organization in the cloud.
Benefits
Learn the methods and tools to design, build, and maintain a secure cloud business environment.
Prepare for Careers
- Develop skills for entry-level cloud security positions
- Prepare for Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) exam
- Pursue a career in cloud security, an in-demand, exciting new area that spans all industries
Course Details
Target Audience: | Learners enrolled in technology degree programs at higher education institutions; IT professionals who want to pursue a career in Cloud Security |
Estimated Time to Completion: | 35 hours |
Prerequisites: | Introduction to Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Essentials |
Course Delivery: | Online self-paced (with instructor mentorship) |
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Course Recognitions: | Certificate of attendance |
Recommended Next Course: | Network Security, IoT Security |
Course Overview
This course introduces the core security concepts and skills needed to configure and troubleshoot computer networks and help ensure the integrity of devices and data.
Benefits
Gain practical, hands-on skills to design, implement, and manage network security systems and ensure their integrity.
Prepare for Careers
- Build expertise in network security and data protection
- Develop skills for entry-level network security specialist roles
- Gain industry in-demand skills aligned with the National Institute for Standards and
- Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework
Course Details
Target Audience: | 2-year and 4-year college students in Networking or Engineering programs |
Estimated Time to Completion: | 70 hours |
Prerequisites: | Basic understanding of computer networks (CCNA: Introduction to Networks and CCNA: Switching, Routing, and Wireless Essentials, or equivalent) |
Course Delivery: | Instructor-led |
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Course Recognitions: | Certificate of Completion, Letter of Merit, Digital Badge |
Recommended Next Course: | CyberOps Associate, Cloud Security, IoT Security |
Course Overview
The explosive growth of connected IoT devices also increases the exposure to security threats. Learn to perform vulnerability and risk assessments, and research and recommend risk mitigation strategies for common security threats in IoT systems.
Benefits
Learn practical tools for evaluating security vulnerabilities, perform threat modeling, and recommend threat mitigation measures. Gain hands-on, transferable skills relevant across IoT and other network architectures.
Prepare for Careers
- Develop skills for entry-level roles in the rapidly growing IoT and security domains
- Increase awareness of emerging technologies in the IoT Security space, such as Blockchain
Course Details
Target Audience: | Vocational, 2-year and 4-year College, 4-Year University students |
Estimated Time to Completion: | 50 hours |
Prerequisites: | IoT Fundamentals: Connecting Things Networking Essentials and Cybersecurity Essentials (or equivalent) |
Course Delivery: | Instructor-led |
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Course Recognitions: | Certificate of Completion |
Recommended Next Course: | CyberOps Associate, Cloud Security |
