What you will learn
- The history of Cybersecurity; types and motives of cyber attacks to further your knowledge of current threats to organizations and individuals; key terminology, basic system concepts and tools as an introduction to the Cybersecurity field.
- Key cybersecurity roles in an organization, processes and examples of each process, describe the architecture, file systems, and basic commands for multiple operating systems including Windows, Mac/OS, Linux; and understand the concept of Virtualization.
- The background needed to understand the key cybersecurity compliance and industry standards. This knowledge will be important for you to learn no matter what cybersecurity role you would like to acquire or have within an organization.
- The basic commands for user and server administration as it relates to security. You will need this skill to be able to understand vulnerabilities within your organizations operating systems.
- The concepts of endpoint security and patch management and finally you will learn in depth skills around cryptography and encryption to understand how these concepts affect software within a company.
Program Overview
Expert instruction
4 skill-building courses
Self-paced
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5 months
3 - 5 hours per week
Discounted price: $536.40
Pre-discounted price: $596USD
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IBM's IBM Cybersecurity Fundamentals Professional Certificate
- Cybersecurity Basics
- Operating Systems and Security
- Cybersecurity Compliance and Framework
- Database Basics and Security
- Job Outlook
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