CompTIA Security+ courses can help you learn network security, risk management, cryptography, and identity management. You can build skills in threat analysis, incident response, and implementing security controls to protect sensitive information. Many courses introduce tools like firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and vulnerability assessment software, showing how these tools are applied to safeguard networks and data against potential threats.

University of Colorado System
Skills you'll gain: Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks, Authentications, Cloud Security, Threat Management, Cybersecurity, Threat Detection, Security Awareness, Cyber Attacks, Exploitation techniques, Network Security, Vulnerability Assessments, Cloud Services, Cloud Computing, Vulnerability Management, Data Security, Human Factors (Security), Incident Response, Software As A Service
★ 4.7 (675) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

University of Colorado System
Skills you'll gain: Public Key Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Information Systems Security, Data Security, Cyber Attacks, Information Assurance, Network Security, Risk Management Framework, Security Controls, Cryptography, Cryptographic Protocols, Key Management, Security Engineering, Threat Modeling, Security Management, Authorization (Computing), Encryption, Email Security, Data Integrity, Authentications
★ 3.9 (242) · Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Universiteit Leiden
Skills you'll gain: Risk Management, Operational Risk, Risk Mitigation, Risk Analysis, Safety and Security, Hazard Analysis, Cybersecurity, Environmental Issue, Public Health
★ 4.7 (228) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Vanderbilt University
Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, AI Security, ChatGPT, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Claude Code, Prompt Patterns, Generative AI Agents, Engineering Software, Generative AI, Prompt Engineering Tools, AI powered creativity, Multimodal Prompts, AI Product Strategy, Anthropic Claude, AI Enablement, AI Personalization, AI Orchestration, AI Workflows, Agentic Workflows, AI Integrations
★ 4.8 (9.5K) · Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Amazon Bedrock, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, AWS SageMaker, Amazon Web Services, Model Evaluation, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AI Enablement, Decision Intelligence, Prompt Engineering, AWS Kinesis, Large Language Modeling, AWS CloudFormation, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Fine-tuning, Data Processing, Cloud Computing, Natural Language Processing
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Microsoft
Skills you'll gain: Data Lakes, Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), Data Warehousing, Data Pipelines, Data Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps, Star Schema, Dataflow, Interviewing Skills, Extract, Transform, Load, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Professional Development, Dependency Analysis, Power BI, Transaction Processing, Microsoft Power Platform, Transact-SQL, PySpark, Web Presence
Advanced · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Ansible, Shell Script, Package and Software Management, Linux Administration, Linux, Linux Servers, Unix Shell, Firewall, Bash (Scripting Language), Linux Commands, Performance Tuning, Model Context Protocol, Operating System Administration, Unix, User Accounts, Unix Commands, Systems Administration, System Monitoring, Command-Line Interface, Automation
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Google Cloud
Skills you'll gain: Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Infrastructure, Load Balancing, Prompt Engineering, Kubernetes, Network Monitoring, Prompt Engineering Tools, Containerization, Virtual Networking, Network Architecture, Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS), Prompt Patterns, Network Security, Cloud Platforms, Cloud Storage, Network Routing, Network Planning And Design, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Hybrid Cloud Computing
★ 4.8 (2K) · Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

SkillsBooster Academy
Skills you'll gain: Email Automation, Business Process Automation, Generative AI Agents, Business Workflow Analysis, Automation, Workflow Management, Agentic systems, Expense Reports, ChatGPT, Client Support, LLM Application, Project Coordination, Coordinating, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Architecture, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Generative AI, Expense Management, Prompt Engineering, Business
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Google Cloud
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

University of Colorado System
Skills you'll gain: Data Encryption Standard, Public Key Infrastructure, Cryptography, Brute-force attacks, Key Management, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Cryptographic Protocols, Encryption, Data Integrity, Cybersecurity, Computer Security, Information Assurance, Authentications, Data Security, Theoretical Computer Science, Threat Modeling, Communication Systems, Algorithms, Digital Communications
★ 4.6 (923) · Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Google Cloud
Skills you'll gain: Dataflow, Apache Kafka, Data Pipelines, Real Time Data, Data Wrangling, Cloud-Based Integration, Extract, Transform, Load, Serverless Computing, Command-Line Interface, Google Cloud Platform, Data Warehousing, Apache Spark, Cloud Engineering, Data Quality, Identity and Access Management, Data Integration, Scripting, Data Cleansing, Data Transformation, Data Processing
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months