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Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate

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Prepare for a career as a cybersecurity analyst with Google’s professional certificate. Learn in-demand skills like identifying risks, threats, and vulnerabilities, and how to mitigate them.

This fully online program equips you with job-ready skills using tools like Python, Linux, SQL, SIEM, and IDS, even with no prior experience. The certificate also prepares you for the CompTIA Security+ exam, enhancing your hireability with a dual credential.

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Key competencies that will be gained:

  • Programming for cybersecurity tasks Frameworks and controls that inform security operations.
  • Using security information and event management (SIEM) tools for cybersecurity.
  • Detecting and responding to incidents using an intrusion detection system.
  • Performing packet capture and analysis.

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Certificate curriculum:

  • Foundations of Cybersecurity.
  • Play It Safe: Manage Security Risks.
  • Connect and Protect: Networks and Network Security.
  • Tools of the Trade: Linux and SQL Assets, Threats, and Vulnerabilities.
  • Sound the Alarm: Detection and Response.
  • Automate Cybersecurity Tasks with Python.
  • Put It to Work: Prepare for Cybersecurity Jobs.

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Skills gained:

Linux Python Programming, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Security Information, and Event Management (SIEM) tools, SQL.

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Prospective jobs to consider:

Cybersecurity Analyst, Security Analyst, SOC Analyst, Information Security Analyst, IT Security Analyst, Cyber Defense Analyst.

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Approximately 3-6 months to complete:

Suggested pace of 10 hours/week.