Issued by Foundryy · Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Essentials
Learn how systems are attacked and defended, and how to secure the basics.
- Duration
- 3 months
- Study time
- 64 hours
- Modules
- 5
- Cost
- At enrollment
- Cybersecurity
- Networking
- Linux
- Cryptography
- Threat Modeling
Curriculum
- 110 h
Security foundations
CIA triad, Threats and risk
- 214 h
Networks and systems
Network security, Linux hardening
- 314 h
Applications and cryptography
OWASP Top 10, Cryptography basics
- 410 h
Detection and response
Logging, Incident handling
- 516 h
Capstone
Threat model and report
Who can enroll
Open to students and early-career professionals. Basic networking knowledge helps.
To earn the certificate
- Complete every module of the curriculum
- Submit a capstone project: a threat model and hardening report for a small system, using only systems you own or are authorised to test
- Pass a final review by a Foundryy reviewer
- Follow Foundryy’s academic-integrity policy: the work you submit must be your own
Issued by Foundryy after the team has reviewed your capstone against the requirements.