Cybersecurity affects everyone, including in the delivery of basic products and services. If you or your organization want to better understand how to address your cybersecurity, this is the course for you and your colleagues to take -- from seasoned professionals to your non-technical colleagues.
Cybersecurity for Everyone
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Cybersecurity for Everyone
This course is part of Cybersecurity in the AI Era Specialization
Instructor: Charles Harry
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No prior experience required
Flexible schedule
2 weeks at 10 hours a week
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Skills you'll gain
- Cybersecurity
- Risk Management
- Threat Modeling
- Computer Security
- Vulnerability
- Telecommunications
- Public Safety and National Security
- Cyber Security Strategy
- Infrastructure Security
- Security Awareness
- Governance
- Data Security
- Threat Detection
- Cyber Security Policies
- Cyber Attacks
- Cyber Risk
- Security Management
- General Networking
- Enterprise Security
- Cyber Governance
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There are 6 modules in this course
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Reviewed on Aug 3, 2022
This course helped me in several ways one of them is helping me understand the various attacks that hackers might pull off having an understanding of such attacks will surely help me in the future
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Reviewed on Jun 24, 2023
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Reviewed on Feb 20, 2025
I am extremely content with the material I was provided in this course and able to gain a vast amount of knowledge in a field that is becoming increasingly demanded on a global scale.
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