Security certification courses can help you learn risk assessment, incident response, network security principles, and compliance standards. You can build skills in threat analysis, vulnerability management, and implementing security policies effectively. Many courses introduce tools such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and security information and event management (SIEM) software, showing how these tools are applied in real-world security scenarios to protect sensitive information and systems.

Skills you'll gain: User Accounts, Technical Support and Services, User Provisioning, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), VPN Clients, Authentications, Encryption, Data Sharing
Intermediate · Course · 3 - 6 Months

University of Colorado System
Skills you'll gain: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Load Balancing, User Accounts, Apache, Web Servers, System Configuration, Command-Line Interface, Linux, Debugging, Network Routing
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

LearnKartS
Skills you'll gain: Data Sharing, Security Controls, Authentications
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Site Reliability Engineering, Kubernetes, Application Performance Management, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Infrastructure, System Monitoring, Prompt Engineering, Application Deployment, Identity and Access Management, CI/CD, Containerization, Cloud Storage, Cloud Security, Cloud Services, Cloud Management, Service Level Agreement, Virtual Machines, Safety Culture, Network Monitoring, Culture Transformation
Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Application Performance Management, Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Infrastructure, Load Balancing, System Monitoring, Prompt Engineering, Kubernetes, Network Planning And Design, Network Performance Management, Network Monitoring, Firewall, Containerization, Cloud Computing Architecture, Virtual Networking, Network Architecture, Network Security, Cloud Storage, Network Routing, Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Intermediate · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

University of Minnesota
Skills you'll gain: Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), Cloud Security, Authentications, Key Management, Cloud Applications, Application Security, Secure Coding, DevSecOps, Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Identity and Access Management, Multi-Factor Authentication, Security Testing, Cryptography, Web Services, Server Side
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Vulnerability Management, Identity and Access Management, IT Security Architecture, Incident Response, Security Controls, Endpoint Security, Event Monitoring, Cybersecurity, Data Security, Infrastructure Security, Mobile Security, Threat Detection, Firewall, Encryption, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Digital Forensics, Disaster Recovery
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Agile Methodology, Product Management, Sprint Planning, Agile Project Management, Sprint Retrospectives, Backlogs, Quality Assessment, Team Building
Advanced · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Microsoft
Skills you'll gain: Microsoft Azure, Threat Modeling, Cloud Security, Continuous Monitoring, System Monitoring, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Management, Threat Detection, Threat Management, Application Performance Management, Event Monitoring, Vulnerability Management, Brute-force attacks, Incident Response, Query Languages
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Generative Model Architectures, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Generative AI, Autoencoders, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Deep Learning, Model Evaluation, Vision Transformer (ViT), Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Tensorflow, Large Language Modeling, Prompt Engineering, PyTorch (Machine Learning Library), Artificial Neural Networks, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, Unsupervised Learning, Natural Language Processing
Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Routing Protocols, Wide Area Networks, Network Security, Network Routing, Data Centers, TCP/IP, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Network Protocols, Network Switches, Virtual Machines, Network Administration, Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), Virtualization, Wireless Networks, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Network Monitoring, Computer Networking, Firewall, Network Troubleshooting, Network Architecture
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

AI CERTs
Skills you'll gain: Blockchain, Cryptography, Application Security, Encryption, Network Security, Security Engineering, Cybersecurity, Vulnerability Assessments, Transaction Processing, Data Validation, Distributed Computing, Data Integrity, Network Protocols, Data Mining, Verification And Validation
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks