Cybersecurity Fundamentals for Practitioners and Managers Certificate

Program Abstract

Cybersecurity is an essential topic for many businesses, schools, banks, and other organizations. As our lives evolve online, it is critical to prioritize securing our online identities and assets. Additionally, with online business transactions becoming a standard, every employee must understand how to keep information and their networks safe.

Designed to give participants a general awareness of cybersecurity and to familiarize them with basic tools and terminology, this course covers fundamentals of cybersecurity and acts as a starting point into a cybersecurity career. The goal is to provide participants with the foundational skills and vocabulary enabling pursuit of further training or certification, preparing for a future transition into a cybersecurity operations or administrator role.

No prior cybersecurity experience is required.

PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN:

• Cybersecurity terms, definitions
• Networking fundamentals
• Attacks, vulnerabilities, threats
• Security assessments, mitigation and penetration testing
• Cybersecurity framework
• Risk assessments

*This is a non-credit certificate.