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8 Lessons, Kick-start Your Cybersecurity Learning.

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🚀 Cybersecurity for Beginners – a curriculum

In this rapidly changing age of AI technology adoption, it is even more critical to understand how to secure IT systems. This course is designed to teach you fundamental cyber security concepts to kick-start your security learning. It is vendor agnostic and is divided into small lessons that should take around 30-60 mins to complete. Each lesson has a small quiz and links to further reading if you want to dive into the topic a bit more.

Cybersecurity for Beginners

What this course covers 📚

  • 🔐 Basic cyber security concepts such as the CIA triad, the differences between risks, threats, etc,
  • 🛡️ Understanding what a security control is and what forms they take.
  • 🌐 Understanding what zero trust is and why this is important in modern cyber security.
  • 🔑 Understanding key concepts and themes across identity, networking, security operations, infrastructure and data security.
  • 🔧 Giving some examples of tools used to implement security controls.

What this course does not cover 🙅‍♂️

  • 🚫 How to use specific security tools.
  • 🚫 How to "hack" or do red teaming/offensive security.
  • 🚫 Learning about specific compliance standards.

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When you have finished this course, you can move onto some of our Microsoft Learn modules. We recommend you continue your learning with Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals.

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