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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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Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
4.8

(40,238 reviews)

Beginner level
No prior experience required
6 months
at 7 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Understand the importance of cybersecurity practices and their impact for organizations.

  • Identify common risks, threats, and vulnerabilities, as well as techniques to mitigate them.

  • Protect networks, devices, people, and data from unauthorized access and cyberattacks using Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools.

  • Gain hands-on experience with Python, Linux, and SQL.

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Prepare for a career in cybersecurity

  • Receive professional-level training from Google
  • Demonstrate your proficiency in portfolio-ready projects
  • Earn an employer-recognized certificate from Google
  • Qualify for in-demand job titles: cybersecurity analyst, security analyst, security operations center (SOC) analyst
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$100,000+
median U.S. salary for cybersecurity
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213,000+
U.S. job openings in cybersecurity
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75%
of certificate graduates report career improvement
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  • Interview prep

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  • Career support

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Professional Certificate - 8 course series

Foundations of Cybersecurity

Course 19 hours4.8 (31,540 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: Cybersecurity
Category: Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Category: SQL
Category: Cyber Attacks
Category: Security Controls
Category: Network Analysis
Category: Cyber Security Policies
Category: Ethical Standards And Conduct
Category: Security Awareness

Play It Safe: Manage Security Risks

Course 29 hours4.8 (8,932 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: Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Category: Cybersecurity
Category: Incident Response
Category: Risk Management
Category: Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Category: NIST 800-53
Category: Cyber Security Policies
Category: Security Controls
Category: Threat Detection
Category: Compliance Auditing
Category: Safety Audits
Category: Cyber Risk

Connect and Protect: Networks and Network Security

Course 311 hours4.8 (5,869 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: Network Security
Category: Computer Networking
Category: Firewall
Category: Network Protocols
Category: TCP/IP
Category: Hardening
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Network Architecture
Category: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Category: Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Category: Cyber Attacks
Category: Network Infrastructure

Tools of the Trade: Linux and SQL

Course 421 hours4.8 (5,109 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: Linux Commands
Category: Operating Systems
Category: Linux
Category: SQL
Category: Computer Hardware
Category: Linux Administration
Category: File Systems
Category: User Accounts
Category: Databases
Category: Relational Databases
Category: Bash (Scripting Language)
Category: Command-Line Interface
Category: Cybersecurity

Assets, Threats, and Vulnerabilities

Course 519 hours4.8 (3,373 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: Cybersecurity
Category: Authentications
Category: Data Security
Category: Vulnerability Assessments
Category: Encryption
Category: Authorization (Computing)
Category: Security Controls
Category: Vulnerability Management
Category: Security Awareness
Category: Threat Detection
Category: Threat Modeling
Category: Personally Identifiable Information
Category: Malware Protection
Category: MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Category: Cyber Threat Intelligence
Category: Risk Management Framework
Category: NIST 800-53

Sound the Alarm: Detection and Response

Course 617 hours4.8 (2,814 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: Incident Response
Category: Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Category: Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Category: Technical Documentation
Category: Record Keeping
Category: Network Security
Category: Network Analysis
Category: Computer Security Incident Management
Category: Network Monitoring
Category: Document Management
Category: Event Monitoring
Category: Threat Detection
Category: Continuous Monitoring
Category: Incident Management

Automate Cybersecurity Tasks with Python

Course 724 hours4.7 (2,893 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: Python Programming
Category: File Management
Category: Scripting
Category: Debugging
Category: Automation
Category: Cybersecurity
Category: Data Structures
Category: Programming Principles

Put It to Work: Prepare for Cybersecurity Jobs

Course 814 hours4.8 (4,536 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: Incident Management
Category: Technical Communication
Category: Incident Response
Category: Cyber Security Policies
Category: Cybersecurity
Category: Computer Security Awareness Training
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Security Management
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Computer Security Incident Management
Category: Security Awareness

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¹Lightcast™ US Job Postings (median salary with 0-5 years experience), Jan. 1, 2022 - Dec. 31, 2022). ²Positive career outcome (e.g., new job, promotion, or raise) within six months of completion. Based on program graduate survey, United States 2022.