THE LEARNING HUB

CYBERACES: CYBER SECURITY TRAINING COURSE

We live in a networked worldkeeping in touch with friends, paying bills, operating a city’s energy grid, strengthening national security - it happens online. The need to secure our networks has never been greater. The number of cyber-attacks is increasing dramatically and there aren’t enough people with the right skills to fill missioncritical jobs needed to ensure our security online.

Developed from our library of professional development curriculum, SANS Cyber Aces Online is an online course that teaches the core concepts needed to assess and protect information security systems. And it’s free!

The course material is updated regularly to keep pace with changes in technology and threat landscape. It is an engaging, selfpaced, easy-to-use combination of tutorials and videos where learners will come away with a solid foundation for building a career in cybersecurity or just strengthening their own home network.

It’s available as open courseware so learners can take it anytime and anywhere.

VMWARE LEARNING: VMWARE TRAINING

Internet security is one of many free online courses that are offered by WMware Training, which offers a suite of courses having to do with computers and a business environment.

VMware Learning provides training and certification programs to grow your skills and leverage opportunities available with VMware solutions.

Helps grow your career and advance your credibility with employers, colleagues, and clients.

VMware Learning Paths are designed to help you identify course needs based on your VMware product focus, your role and skill level.

SAYLOR.ORG: CS406: INFORMATION SECURITY

This course covers information security principles, an area of study that engages in protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. Information security continues to grow with advancements in technology – as technology advances, so do threats, attacks, and our efforts to mitigate them.

In this course, we discuss the modes of threats and attacks on information systems. We also discuss an important area of threat mitigation that saw rapid development in the twentieth century: cryptography.

Information security is concerned with user identification and authentication and access control based on individual or group privileges. The basic access control models and the fundamentals of identification and authentication methods are included in this course.

EIT DIGITAL: SECURITY AND PRIVACY FOR BIG DATA

For learners who are interested in cybersecurity, EIT Digital’s free online security courses, including Security and Privacy for Big Data – Part 1, are a great way to start learning about security in the digital world. This course teaches students the basics of cryptography, including how to manage security access within their network systems.

EIT Digital is a leading education provider in the digital security world. They work to make technical education available to professionals around the world. The organization works to make content public on a regular basis, allowing people to access their content for free in an effort to make the digital world a safer place for all.

ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM: INTERNATIONAL SECURITY MANAGEMENT

The International Security Management course at Erasmus University Rotterdam is one of the many free security courses online that can teach students how to stay safe and secure in today’s ever-changing world.

In this course, students learn about organized crime and illicit trade, and how these activities run rampant in the digital world. Students also learn about current efforts being made to take down people who participate in these activities online.

Erasmus University believes in providing students with an education that’s engaging and fun, while also providing a deep understanding of the subject at hand. The University films its digital courses at several locations throughout Europe, allowing students to see their instructors in their home environment.

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: INFORMATION SECURITY

Georgia Institute of Technology’s Network Security course is one of several free online security courses that can teach students how to keep themselves safe when sharing their information online.

This course is applicable both on a personal and business level and can be useful for professionals who want to learn how to keep their work information safe. Students in this course learn the basics of systems security, cryptanalysis, and cryptography.

It’s recommended that students already have an intermediate understanding of technology before entering this course. This 15-week course requires 10 to 15 hours of study per week, or more if students are lacking in the understanding of basic cybersecurity concepts.