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Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate
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Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate

Get on the fast track to a career in cybersecurity. In this certificate program, you'll learn in-demand skills, and get AI training from Google experts. Learn at your own pace, no degree or experience required.

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Professional Certificate - 8 course series

Foundations of Cybersecurity

Course 19 hours4.9 (32,361 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Recognize core skills and knowledge needed to become a cybersecurity analyst

  • Identify how security attacks impact business operations

  • Explain security ethics

  • Identify common tools used by cybersecurity analysts

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud Networks
Category: Network Security
Category: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Network Architecture
Category: Security Hardening

Play It Safe: Manage Security Risks

Course 29 hours4.8 (9,097 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Identify the primary threats, risks, and vulnerabilities to business operations

  • Examine how organizations use security frameworks and controls to protect business operations

  • Define commonly used Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools

  • Use a playbook to respond to threats, risks, and vulnerabilities

Skills you'll gain

Category: Incident Response Playbooks
Category: Security Audits
Category: NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF)
Category: NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)
Category: Information Security (INFOSEC)

Connect and Protect: Networks and Network Security

Course 311 hours4.8 (6,020 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Define the types of networks and components of networks

  • Illustrate how data is sent and received over a network

  • Understand how to secure a network against intrusion tactics

  • Describe system hardening techniques

Skills you'll gain

Category: Command line interface (CLI)
Category: Linux
Category: Bash
Category: SQL

Tools of the Trade: Linux and SQL

Course 421 hours4.8 (5,229 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Explain the relationship between operating systems, applications, and hardware

  • Compare a graphical user interface to a command line interface

  • Navigate and manage the file system using Linux commands via the Bash shell

  • Use SQL to retrieve information from a database

Skills you'll gain

Category: resume and portfolio preparation
Category: escalation
Category: Job preparedness
Category: stakeholder communication
Category: integrity and discretion

Assets, Threats, and Vulnerabilities

Course 519 hours4.8 (3,460 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Classify assets

  • Analyze an attack surface to find risks and vulnerabilities

  • Identify threats, such as social engineering, malware and web-based exploits

  • Summarize the threat modeling process

Skills you'll gain

Category: threat analysis
Category: Cryptography
Category: vulnerability assessment
Category: asset classification
Category: Authentication

Sound the Alarm: Detection and Response

Course 617 hours4.8 (2,867 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Identify the steps to contain, eradicate, and recover from an incident

  • Analyze packets to interpret network communications

  • Understand basic syntax, components of signatures and logs in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) tools

  • Perform queries in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools to investigate an event

Skills you'll gain

Category: NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)
Category: Information Security (INFOSEC)
Category: Cybersecurity
Category: Historical Attacks
Category: Ethics in cybersecurity

Automate Cybersecurity Tasks with Python

Course 724 hours4.8 (2,953 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Explain how the Python programming language is used in cybersecurity

  • Create new, user-defined Python functions

  • Use regular expressions to extract information from text

  • Practice debugging code

Skills you'll gain

Category: Network Security
Category: Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools
Category: Packet Analyzer
Category: Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)

Put It to Work: Prepare for Cybersecurity Jobs

Course 814 hours4.8 (4,717 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Determine when and how to escalate a security incident

  • Engage with the cybersecurity community

  • Apply for cybersecurity jobs and prepare for interviews.

  • Gain a competitive edge by learning AI skills from Google experts.

  • Boost your cybersecurity skills with AI
  • Decode complex security frameworks with AI
  • Use AI to help identify bugs
  • Refine code with help from AI
  • Understand system vulnerabilities with AI
  • Prioritize alerts with AI

Skills you'll gain

Category: PEP 8 style guide
Category: Coding
Category: Computer Programming
Category: Python Programming

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