Introduction to Cybersecurity Foundations

Beginner Level
2 hours to complete
Flexible Schedule

Keatron Evans

What You’ll Learn

What Cybersecurity is

What an Operating System is

What Risk Management is

Skills You’ll Gain

Cybersecurity Linux Network Monitoring Cloud Computing Virtual Machines General Networking Windows PowerShell Command-Line Interface

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There are 4 modules in this course

This course is an introductory cybersecurity path for people who have not been exposed to cybersecurity concepts in the workplace before. In these courses, a cybersecurity professional will walk the student through foundational concepts, commands and tools.

This course introduces you to the basic concepts that are usually not covered in other classes and bootcamps for people entering the industry. If you've been trying to break into cybersecurity and felt like the courses you've taken didn't address enough of the foundational aspects of cybersecurity and technology in general, this course is for you. It is the missing piece for brand-new cybersecurity students.

This course is an introduction to networking and how networks work. When data moves, it generally moves from one network to another. Here, we teach the learner about the fundamentals of networking and how network technologies apply to cybersecurity.

This course is an introduction to cloud computing. It builds from the Network Fundamentals course in this path and prepares the learner for learning cloud security.