Description
This is a Skills for ALL course designed to empower individuals with skills required as a must in todays digital world.
This course covers essential knowledge for all cybersecurity domains including information security, systems security, network security, ethics and laws, and defence and mitigation techniques used in protecting businesses. It develops a foundational understanding of cybercrime, security principles, technologies, and procedures
used to defend networks.
Core Skills:
- Understand security controls for networks, servers and applications.
- Learn valuable security principals and how to develop compliant policies.
- Implement proper procedures for data confidentiality and availability.
- Develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills using real equipment and Cisco Packet Tracer.
This course is intended for people who want to learn about security principles to defend their networks.
This course is at an intermediate level.
The course is offered in partnership with Cisco Networking Academy.
For organisations that wish to pay the student fees for this course and are unable to pay by credit card via the website, please contact the Short Course team via email on shortcourses@tafesa.edu.au to organise a Third Party Payment invoice.
Class Times
Accepting enrolments up until 30th of June 2025
Online self-paced paced study up to 3 months
Please Note - This course commences from 20th of January 2025. You will receive further information from your lecturer after this date.
Student Visa (500)
Current VISA holders eligible
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