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The Practical Cybersecurity for IT Professionals Micro-credential is designed to equip learners with applied approaches for securing small-business and enterprise network infrastructure and data systems. With an emphasis on cybersecurity policies and network design, learners gain valuable knowledge and skills to protect organizational IT infrastructure and develop procedures for business continuity. In this 160-hour micro-credential, learners acquire practical skills to develop operational frameworks for organizational security policies and learn to install, configure, and maintain equipment and applications to support these policies. Core skills include monitoring, detecting, and responding to cybersecurity events as well as an in-depth knowledge of identity services and authentication, encryption, client and service security, intrusion detection, next generation firewalls, and remote (VPN) access implementation. This micro-credential emphasizes real-time learning that delves into cybersecurity domains and provides the latest tools, techniques and best practices used by industry professionals to secure information systems.

Graduates will have experience and knowledge to design, implement, and maintain comprehensive cybersecurity measures for small-business and enterprise network infrastructure and data systems by applying industry tools and best practices. Graduates will be able to create a catalyst for immediate change to effectively protect digital assets and mitigate cyber threat to enterprise environments.