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Professional Certificate in IBM Cybersecurity Fundamentals

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Course Features

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Duration

5 months

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Beginner

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Effort

5 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

Today's security industry has many exciting and well-paid jobs that don't require a college degree.

This professional certificate program will teach you concepts about cybersecurity tools and processes, system administration and operating system, as well as the basics of industry standards and security compliance.

They are IBMers with an international perspective. They will be sharing the skills necessary to protect IBM's security systems and those of its clients’.

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Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

The history of Cybersecurity; types and motives of cyber attacks to further your knowledge of current threats to organizations and individuals; key terminology, basic system concepts and tools as an introduction to the Cybersecurity field

Key cybersecurity roles in an organization, processes and examples of each process, describe the architecture, file systems, and basic commands for multiple operating systems including Windows, Mac/OS, Linux; and understand the concept of Virtualization

The background needed to understand the key cybersecurity compliance and industry standards This knowledge will be important for you to learn no matter what cybersecurity role you would like to acquire or have within an organization

The basic commands for user and server administration as it relates to security You will need this skill to be able to understand vulnerabilities within your organizations operating systems

The concepts of endpoint security and patch management and finally you will learn in depth skills around cryptography and encryption to understand how these concepts affect software within a company

Course Instructors

Coreen Ryskamp

Program manager with IBM Security Learning Services at IBM

Coreen is a program manager with IBM Security Learning Services with responsibilities in cybersecurity course development, open badging and academic partnership programs. Coreen has many years of exp...
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