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Explore Cybersecurity Careers

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Overview

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Interested in a career in cybersecurity? In this learning path, learn about different career paths in the industry and how to land your first cybersecurity job.
  • Understand the skills needed to succeed in cybersecurity.
  • Apply your existing skills to a career in cybersecurity.
  • Discover job opportunities and land a job in the field.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Land Your First Cybersecurity Job
-Discover opportunities and practical strategies for career changers looking to land a new role as a cybersecurity professional.

Course 2: Cybersecurity Careers and Certifications
-Interested in finding a cybersecurity job? Join expert Marc Menninger to find out how to launch a successful career in cybersecurity.

Course 3: Cybersecurity Careers: Become a Security Engineer
-Discover exciting career paths and job opportunities as a security engineer in the cybersecurity industry.

Course 4: Cybersecurity Careers: Become a Penetration Tester
-Explore the skills and knowledge that you need in order to become a penetration tester (pen tester).

Course 5: Cybersecurity Careers: Become an Identity and Access Management Manager
-Learn about the job role of Identity and Access Management Manager, including how to land your first IAM Manager job.

Course 6: Cybersecurity Careers: Become a Security Auditor
-Get a broad overview of the security auditor job role: what opportunities exist and what knowledge and qualifications you’ll need to step into those opportunities.

Course 7: Advance Your Cybersecurity Career
-Discover proven strategies to advance your cybersecurity career, land a new role, and excel at your job.

Course 8: Cybersecurity Careers: Become a Business Information Security Officer (BISO)
-Get insight into what it takes to best partner with, or land a job as, a business information security officer.

Course 9: Cybersecurity Careers: Become a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
-This course provides aspiring chief information security officers (CISOs) with an overview of what it takes to get hired into this unique and fast-growing position.

Courses

Taught by

Mari Galloway, MSIS, CISSP, Marc Menninger, CISSP, CRISC, Dominique West, Tennisha Virginia M., Andrew Chanthaphone, Mike Miller, Henri Davis, Nicole Dove and Jerich Beason

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