Google Cybersecurity Professional

• No degree or experience required.

In this program, you’ll learn in-demand skills that will have you job-ready in a very short time. No degree or experience required.

What you'll learn

• Understand the importance of cybersecurity practices and their impact for organizations.

• Identify common risks, threats, and vulnerabilities, as well as techniques to mitigate them.

• Protect networks, devices, people, and data from unauthorized access and cyberattacks using Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools.

• Gain hands-on experience with Python, Linux, and SQL.

Foundations of Cybersecurity

• Recognize core skills and knowledge needed to become a cybersecurity analyst

• Identify how security attacks impact business operations

• Explain security ethics

• Identify common tools used by cybersecurity analysts

Play It Safe: Manage Security Risks

• Identify the primary threats, risks, and vulnerabilities to business operations

• Examine how organizations use security frameworks and controls to protect business operations

• Define commonly used Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools

• Use a playbook to respond to threats, risks, and vulnerabilities

Connect and Protect: Networks and Network Security

• Define the types of networks and components of networks

• Illustrate how data is sent and received over a network

• Understand how to secure a network against intrusion tactics

• Describe system hardening techniques

Tools of the Trade: Linux and SQL

• Explain the relationship between operating systems, applications, and hardware

• Compare a graphical user interface to a command line interface

• Navigate and manage the file system using Linux commands via the Bash shell

• Use SQL to retrieve information from a database

Assets, Threats, and Vulnerabilities

• Classify assets

• Analyze an attack surface to find risks and vulnerabilities

• Identify threats, such as social engineering, malware and web-based exploits

• Summarize the threat modeling process

Sound the Alarm: Detection and Response

• Identify the steps to contain, eradicate, and recover from an incident

• Analyze packets to interpret network communications

• Understand basic syntax, components of signatures and logs in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) tools

• Perform queries in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools to investigate an event

Automate Cybersecurity Tasks with Python

• Explain how the Python programming language is used in cybersecurity

• Create new, user-defined Python functions

• Use regular expressions to extract information from text

• Practice debugging code

Put It to Work: Prepare for Cybersecurity Jobs

• Determine when and how to escalate a security incident

• Engage with the cybersecurity community

• Find and apply for cybersecurity jobs

• Prepare for job interviews