Focused Job Roles
Specific Skills, Specialized Roles
Baseline Skills
NEW TO CYBERSECURITY |
COMPUTERS, TECHNOLOGY, AND SECURITY
COMPUTER & IT
FUNDAMENTALS
SEC275 Foundations:
Computers, Technology & Security | GFACT
CYBERSECURITY
FUNDAMENTALS
SEC301 Introduction to Cyber Security | GISF
These entry-level courses cover a wide spectrum of security topics and are liberally
sprinkled with real-life examples. A balanced mix of technical and managerial
issues makes these course appealing to attendees
who need to understand the
salient facets of information security basics and the basics of risk management.
DESIGN, DETECTION, AND DEFENSIVE CONTROLS
Focused
Cyber Defense Skills
ADVANCED
GENERALIST
SEC501 Advanced Security Essentials – Enterprise Defender | GCED
MONITORING
& OPERATIONS
SEC511 Continuous Monitoring and Security Operations | GMON
SECURITY
ARCHITECTURE
SEC530 Defensible Security Architecture and Engineering: Implementing
Zero Trust for the Hybrid Enterprise | GDSA
The detection of what is happening in your environment
requires an increasingly
sophisticated set of skills and capabilities. Identifying security anomalies requires
increased depth of understanding to deploy detection and monitoring tools and to
interpret their output.
OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS | VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS, PENETRATION TESTING
Every Offensive
Professional Should Know
NETWORK
PEN TESTING
SEC560 Enterprise Penetration Testing | GPEN
WEB APPS
SEC542 Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking | GWAPT
VULNERABILITY
ASSESSMENT
SEC460 Enterprise and Cloud | Threat and Vulnerability Assessment | GEVA
The professional who can find weakness is often a different breed than one focused
exclusively on building defenses. A basic tenet of red team/blue
team deployments
is that finding vulnerabilities requires different ways of thinking and different tools.
Offensive skills are essential for cybersecurity professionals to improve their defenses.
