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Getting Started in Cybersecurity (An African's Full Guide)
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Getting Started in Cybersecurity (An African's Full Guide)

Navigating the Cybersecurity Pathway and preparing for a career in it.
Created byMgbemena Emmanuel
Last updated 8/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand the Introductory Knowledge and Terminology in Cybersecurity (Simple Explanation)
  • Know the right way to break into Cybersecurity as a career
  • Avoided making mistakes that most beginners make that get them frustrated
  • Position Yourself to be employable in the Cybersecurity field

Course content

5 sections • 5 lectures • 3h 36m total length

  • Introduction to Cybersecurity1:29:41

    I think before jumping into Cybersecurity and everything it entails, we need to know WHY we need Cybersecurity. What is the essence and why was it put in place?

    The main reason for Cybersecurity is to mitigate Cyber crimes and attacks, so we used the first lecture to understand;

    1. Cyber Crimes and Cyber attacks with real life case study

    2. Rise of Cyber attacks

    3. What is Cybersecurity and what are the different categories of Cybersecurity

    4. Vulnerabilities & Exploits

    5. Cybersecurity Threats and Threat Actors

    6. Difference between Cyber Threat and Cyber Attacks

    7. Different Threat Actors

    8. Types of Attack Vectors and Cyber Attacks

    9. A deeper Understanding of Internal and External Threats



  • Lecture 1: Quiz

Requirements

  • Smartphone or Computer
  • Willingness to learn and dedication

Description

This Course was put together by an African who struggled when getting started in Cybersecurity due to the lack of sufficient information and direction on getting started. You will learn all the basics of what Cybersecurity entails and also know how to get started in the field/career path.

If you are someone who doesn't have any computer science background or IT related background, you would most find this beginner course in cybersecurity very useful because of the way it was explained.

There are five different lectures and they are quite easy to follow. From the first to the fourth lecture, we looked at basic concepts in cybersecurity while the last one discussed navigating the career path and the right way to get started in a fairly new, popular and growing field such as cybersecurity.

I believe that anyone who decides to enrol for this course would appreciate the information shared here provided you are dedicated to learning.

This course could be taken by anyone in any country, i only shared my experience as a Nigerian that studied with lots of resources abroad from the US,UK and few of those resources were definitely helpful understanding the cybersecurity concepts but might not be enough to survive and beat the frustration that sets out for every beginner in Africa. Hence the reason i created this course.

Who this course is for:

  • Africans willing to get into the Cybersecurity Field
  • Someone who's confused on how to get started in Cybersecurity

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