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Accelerate your career with a cybersecurity certification from the Pennsylvania Cybersecurity Center.

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Why Cybersecurity?

There are almost 600,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs in the United States alone, cybersecurity has become one of the most sought-after and well-paid information technology positions. Furthermore, with the increasing complexity of cyber threats, cybersecurity executives are looking for better ways to train their teams.

The Pennsylvania Cybersecurity Center aims to provide cutting-edge environments to help students, and organizations train in the most advanced settings and experience real-life cyber attacks.

Be job-ready for these key

Cybersecurity Industry Roles

Threat & Vulnerability Management

Utilize and apply proactive threat intelligence to support organizational security and perform vulnerability management activities.

Software & System Security

Apply security solutions for infrastructure management and explain software & hardware assurance best practices

Compliance & Assessment

Apply security concepts in support of organizational risk mitigation and understand the importance of frameworks, policies, procedures, and controls

Security Operations & Monitoring

Analyze data as part of continuous security monitoring activities and implement configuration changes to existing controls to improve security

Incident Response

Apply the appropriate incident response procedure, analyze potential indicators of compromise, and utilize basic digital forensics techniques

Networking Fundamentals

Explain basic networking concepts including network services, physical connections, topologies and architecture, and cloud connectivity.

Network Security

Explain security concepts and network attacks in order to harden networks against threats.

Network Implementations

Explain routing technologies and networking devices; deploy ethernet solutions and configure wireless technologies.

Governance & Risk Management

Expanded to support organizational risk management and compliance to regulations, such as PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, FISMA, NIST, and CCPA.

Architecture & Design

Includes coverage of enterprise environments and reliance on the cloud, which is growing quickly as organizations transition to hybrid networks.

Threats, and Vulnerabilities

Focusing on more threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities on the Internet from newer custom devices that must be mitigated, such as IoT and embedded devices, newer DDoS attacks, and social engineering attacks based on current events.

Operations & Incident Response

Covering organizational security assessment and incident response procedures, such as basic threat detection, risk mitigation techniques, security controls, and basic digital forensics.