Study Guide

Objective

The Introduction to Cybersecurity course explores cyber trends, threats and staying safe in cyberspace, and protecting personal and company data. This is the first course in the Cisco Junior Cybersecurity Analyst Career Path.
The Junior Cybersecurity Analyst Career Path prepares for the entry-level Cisco Certified Support Technician (CCST) Cybersecurity certification and entry-level cybersecurity positions such as Cybersecurity Technician, Cybersecurity Analyst, or Tier 1 Help Desk Support roles. You will learn vital skills like threat intelligence, network security, and risk management to protect yourself and organizations from cyber attacks.

Content

1. The Need for Cybersecurity
- Learn the need for and importance of cybersecurity
- Understand the characteristics and value of personal data, and data within an organization

2. Attacks, Concepts and Techniques
- Recognize the characteristics and operation of a cyber attack
- Interpret the trends in the cyber threat landscape

3. Protecting Your Data and Privacy
- Understand how to protect devices from threats
- Master how to safeguard your privacy

4. Protecting the Organization
- Learn techniques to protect organizations from cyber attacks
- Recognize the behavior-based approach to cybersecurity
- Explain Cisco’s approach to cybersecurity

5. Will Your Future Be in Cybersecurity?
- Understand legal and ethical issues in cybersecurity

6. Explore the opportunities for pursuing an education and a career in cybersecurity.

Location and time

Course is 100% online (Self-Study) course and it can be done in your own pace. The course, course exercises and tests are in the Metropolia Moodle web environment,

Teaching methods

Course is 100% online (Self-Study) course and it can be done in your own pace.

Further information

The content of the course is divided into 5 lessons. The lessons contain theory pages, and exercises. The exercises are done in student’s own workstation. After each lesson, there is a rehearse quiz that must be completed before the tab for the next lesson appears.

To continue to the next lesson you need to answer correctly at least 60% of the rehearse quiz questions, or you have tried to take the quiz three times.

Evaluation scale

Hyväksytty/Hylätty

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Complete a final exam (answer correctly min. 70% of the given questions).
Evaluation: Approved / Fail

Assessment methods and criteria

Complete a final exam (answer correctly min. 70% of the given questions).

Evaluation: Approved / Fail

Prerequisites

None.