Free course · Security & Cloud
Cybersecurity Fundamentals
Understand how accounts and businesses actually get compromised, protect your own, and see whether security is the career for you.
7lessons
21quiz questions
7exercises
1graded lab
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What you'll be able to do
- Understand the real motives behind attacks, and why ordinary people are targets.
- Secure your accounts properly, and understand why reusing one password is the real danger.
- Recognise the manipulation patterns behind fake messages, rather than memorising examples.
- Understand how malicious software arrives and the few habits that stop most of it.
- Apply everything so far to the device and accounts that matter most.
- Understand enough about how traffic moves to follow security discussions and certifications.
- Judge whether this field suits you, and know the legal line before you go near it.
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This free course is the introduction. The programme is taught by a trainer, marked by the academy, and carries the syllabus in full — the part an employer asks about.
See the full syllabus and feeCourse content
- 1 What attackers actually want Understand the real motives behind attacks, and why ordinary people are targets.
- 2 Passwords, and why two-factor matters more Secure your accounts properly, and understand why reusing one password is the real danger. Sign in to open
- 3 Phishing and social engineering Recognise the manipulation patterns behind fake messages, rather than memorising examples. Sign in to open
- 4 Malware and ransomware in plain terms Understand how malicious software arrives and the few habits that stop most of it. Sign in to open
- 5 Securing your phone and your money Apply everything so far to the device and accounts that matter most. Sign in to open
- 6 Networks: the parts a beginner needs Understand enough about how traffic moves to follow security discussions and certifications. Sign in to open
- 7 Careers in security, honestly assessed Judge whether this field suits you, and know the legal line before you go near it. Sign in to open