Certified in Cyber Security
- Duration
- 2 days
- Delivery mode
- Online
- Location
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- Price (AUD inc. GST)
- $2,260
- Spots remaining
- AVAILABLE
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Build a strong network
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Risk-ready thinking
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Real-world scenarios
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Course summary
Your cyber course, simplified!
This course guides you through the core foundations of cybersecurity, covering security principles, risk management, incident response, business continuity and disaster recovery.
You’ll explore access control, network security, security operations, and essential best practices for protecting systems and data.
Who will benefit
- CC training is designed for IT professionals, career changers, university students, recent graduates and advanced high school students who want to begin their pathway into cybersecurity by preparing for the CC entry-level exam.
Course is suitable for
- The course is designed for beginners and assumes no prior knowledge.
Delivered by experts
About the course
The ultimate kickstart to your journey
By the end of this course, you will understand the basic principles of modern cyber security. You’ll learn how information assurance works, how to handle risk management and how to tell the difference between policies, standards, regulations and laws.
You’ll examine the (ISC)² Code of Ethics, learn to apply security controls and gain insight into how organisations prepare for incidents, manage disruptions and support recovery.
Why enrol in this course
Start your cyber security career
This course prepares you for the (ISC)² Certified in Cyber Security entry-level certification — a globally recognised standard that jump-starts careers in cyber security with no prior experience required.
Build confidence in core cyber concepts
Learn foundational cyber security principles, risk management, access controls, network security and incident response in an accessible format that demystifies complex topics.
Expert guidance from certified instructors
UNSW Canberra is an official (ISC)² training partner, delivering instruction from professionals experienced in preparing students for industry-aligned cyber credentialing.
Practical preparation for certification success
Gain structured preparation for the Certified in Cyber Security exam, with course material organised to support learning and test readiness.
Key features
Content maps to internationally recognised cyber security concepts, covering information assurance, governance, access control, network security and security operations.
Learn essential skills including risk terminology, incident response, business continuity, physical and logical access control, network threats and security infrastructure.
Designed to fit around work and life commitments with structured content that supports online participation.
Learning outcomes
Cyber security simplified
You’ll build practical knowledge in access control and apply these concepts to real-world situations. Dive into core networking fundamentals, including protocols, secure design, threat types, attack methods and common security tools. You'll examine the essentials of security operations, from encryption and system hardening to monitoring, configuration management and effective security awareness.
Together, these skills equip you with the terminology, frameworks and decision-making foundations needed to confidently step into the cyber security field.
What you'll learn
On completing this course, you will have a solid grasp of the core principles that underpin modern cyber security. You’ll understand essential concepts like risk management, security controls, governance and ethical decision-making, while also learning how organisations prepare for and respond to incidents, disruptions and cyber threats.
You’ll be able to interpret and apply access controls, recognise key network security terms and threats and understand how data, systems and policies are secured in real-world environments.
Topics covered
Skills/competencies/knowledge that would be gained through this course:
- discuss the foundational concepts of cybersecurity principles
- recognise foundational security concepts of information assurance
- define risk management terminology and summarise the process
- relate risk management to personal or professional practices
- classify types of security controls
- distinguish between policies, procedures, standards, regulations and laws
- demonstrate the relationship among governance elements
- analyse appropriate outcomes according to the canons of the (ISC)² Code of Ethics when given examples
- practice the terminology of and review security policies
- explain how organisations respond to, recover from and continue to operate during unplanned disruptions
- recall the terms and components of incident response
- summarise the components of a business continuity plan
- identify the components of disaster recovery
- practice the terminology and review concepts of business continuity, disaster recovery and incident response
- select access controls that are appropriate in a given scenario
- relate access control concepts and processes to given scenarios
- compare various physical access controls
- describe logical access controls
- practice the terminology and review concepts of access controls
- explain the concepts of network security
- recognise common networking terms and models
- identify common protocols and port and their secure counterparts
- identify types of network (cyber) threats and attacks
- discuss common tools used to identify and prevent threats
- identify common data center terminology
- recognise common cloud service terminology
- identify secure network design terminology
- practice the terminology and review concepts of network security
- explain concepts of security operations
- discuss data handling best practices
- identify key concepts of logging and monitoring
- summarise the different types of encryption and their common uses
- describe the concepts of configuration management
- explain the application of common security policies
- discuss the importance of security awareness training
- practice the terminology and review concepts of network operations.
Course delivery
| Format | Commitment | Delivery |
|---|---|---|
2 days | 9am - 4pm | Online |
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