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Threats, networks, identity, incident response, secure coding, and ransomware defence — pathway to an MSc.
All categories · 7 courses
FreeCybersecurityA practical course for students, analysts and managers who know basic cybersecurity ideas and need defensive habits for public cloud. In about 12 hours you will apply the shared responsibility model, protect identities and storage, segment networks, read logs, deploy safer configurations and take the first steps of a cloud incident.
11 lessons · Capstone Exam · Certificate
FreeCybersecurityA first course in cybersecurity for students, career changers and managers who want to understand threats, vulnerabilities and defences from first principles. In about 13 hours you will learn to describe security goals, analyse threats and risk, explain core cryptography, build a simple threat model and recommend practical controls for a small organisation.
11 lessons · Capstone Exam · Certificate
FreeCybersecurityA practical course for executives, board members and senior managers who must govern cyber risk. You will learn how ransomware becomes a business crisis, how to direct incident command, backups, insurance and reporting, and how to brief a board without writing technical procedures. Ten lessons take about 12 hours.
11 lessons · Capstone Exam · Certificate
FreeCybersecurityA practical course for IT staff, security newcomers, technical managers and future computing students who want to understand the identity layer of modern security. You will learn how authentication, MFA, single sign-on, least privilege, privileged access and cloud IAM fit together, and how to plan a zero-trust journey. Ten lessons, about 13 hours of study.
11 lessons · Capstone Exam · Certificate
FreeCybersecurityFor IT staff, junior analysts and managers who want to understand how organisations detect, contain and recover from security incidents. You will learn the incident response lifecycle, how a security operations centre works, logging and detection, containment, ransomware recovery, metrics and post-incident reviews. Ten lessons, about 12 hours of study.
11 lessons · Capstone Exam · Certificate
FreeCybersecurityA practical course for junior system administrators, IT support staff and aspiring security analysts who want to design and defend networks. You will learn to segment networks, write firewall rules, secure remote access and wireless, monitor traffic, read packet captures and harden devices. Ten lessons, about 13 hours of study, finishing with a network security review project.
11 lessons · Capstone Exam · Certificate
FreeCybersecurityFor developers, testers and aspiring security champions who want to prevent vulnerabilities at the source. You will learn the OWASP Top 10, defensive coding for input, authentication, access control and APIs, threat modelling, a secure development lifecycle, DevSecOps automation, security code review and responsible testing. Ten lessons, about 13 hours of study.
11 lessons · Capstone Exam · Certificate
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