Data protection courses can help you learn data privacy regulations, risk assessment techniques, incident response strategies, and encryption methods. You can build skills in compliance management, data governance, and implementing security protocols to safeguard sensitive information. Many courses introduce tools like data loss prevention software, encryption tools, and privacy management platforms, showing how these skills are applied in practical work to protect personal and organizational data.

Skills you'll gain: Medical Privacy, Personally Identifiable Information, Information Privacy, Security Awareness, Data Security, Cybersecurity, Security Controls, Health Information Management, Data Sharing, Authorization (Computing), Health Care Procedure and Regulation, Data Access, Disaster Recovery
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Incident Response, Data Centers, DevSecOps, Endpoint Detection and Response, Security Management, Infrastructure Security, Microsoft Servers, Threat Detection, Information Systems Security, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Windows Servers, System Monitoring, Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards, Configuration Management, Virtual Machines, Disaster Recovery
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: API Design, Back-End Web Development, Secure Coding, Data Security, Application Programming Interface (API), Restful API, Server Side, IT Infrastructure, Application Security, Infrastructure Security, Data Integrity, Servers, OAuth, Cloud Security, Server Administration, System Configuration, Encryption, Authentications, Authorization (Computing)
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Pennsylvania
Skills you'll gain: Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA) Compliance, Medical Privacy, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Personally Identifiable Information, Law, Regulation, and Compliance, Information Privacy, Compliance Management, Data Security, Incident Response, Risk Analysis
Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Macquarie University
Skills you'll gain: Information Privacy, Responsible AI, Personally Identifiable Information, Data Security, Data Ethics, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Risking, Data Governance, Data Management, Incident Response, Cyber Security Policies, Compliance Management, Cyber Security Strategy, Artificial Intelligence, Governance, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Stakeholder Engagement, Cyber Operations, Algorithms
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Microsoft Azure, Cloud Security, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Security, Secure Coding, Cloud Applications, Application Security, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, Multi-Factor Authentication, Encryption, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Advanced · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Data Ethics, Data Analysis, Data Literacy, Data Security, Google Sheets, Databases, Data Storage, Data Quality, Data Management, Data Collection, SQL, Data Import/Export, Metadata Management, Unstructured Data
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

University of California, Irvine
Skills you'll gain: Data Security, System Design and Implementation, Data Ethics, Cybersecurity, Safety and Security, Information Technology, Information Privacy, Computer Literacy, Software Development Tools, Data Sharing, Technology Strategies
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Data Ethics, Data Quality, Data Sharing, Information Privacy, Data Analysis, Informed Consent
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Arizona State University
Skills you'll gain: Data Transformation, Engineering Management, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Computational Thinking, Exploratory Data Analysis, Data Storytelling, Data Integration, Capacity Management, Data Analysis, Data Warehousing, Data Strategy, Data Management, Data Lakes, Unstructured Data, Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Data Access, Data Literacy, Solution Design, Data Quality
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Data Integrity, Data Cleansing, Data Quality, Data Validation, Sample Size Determination, Sampling (Statistics), Data Analysis, Statistics, Statistical Analysis
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Whizlabs
Skills you'll gain: Data Governance, Extract, Transform, Load, Metadata Management, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Data Cleansing, Databricks, Data Management, Data Pipelines, Data Lakes, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Redshift, Data Architecture, Data Security, Personally Identifiable Information, Data Warehousing, Data Quality, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Fraud detection
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks