Cybersecurity Analyst Professional Certificate

Protect, monitor and respond: the defensive skills security teams hire for, practised on your own machine and realistic sample data.

Begin with the foundations of security, then learn to monitor systems and triage alerts, respond to incidents, write code that resists common attacks, secure cloud systems and use machine learning to spot threats. The labs use your own machine and sample logs and code that come with each course, and finish with a hardened Linux server of your own.

Prepares you for

SOC analyst, Security analyst, Incident responder, Junior security engineer

4 courses in this Professional Certificate

• Introduction to Cybersecurity: Understand what cybersecurity protects, recognise common threats, and put the essential defences in place on your own accounts, devices and home network. (Beginner, about 9 hours)
• Security Operations: Monitoring, Detection and Alert Triage: Work like a security operations centre analyst: read the logs that matter, write and test detection rules in Python, look at traffic in Wireshark, and triage alerts into clear findings. (Intermediate, about 10 hours)
• Incident Response Fundamentals: Prepare for, investigate, contain and learn from security incidents, using the Linux command line to build timelines and preserve evidence you can prove is unchanged. (Intermediate, about 9.5 hours)
• Guided Project: Harden a Linux Server: Turn a fresh Ubuntu Server virtual machine into a hardened one: automatic security updates, a sudo user, key-only SSH, a default-deny firewall and fail2ban. (Guided project, Intermediate, about 2.5 hours)