The Cybersecurity and IT Career Development Platform

Prepare yourself to take the next step in your career with Cybrary’s guided, job-specific career paths. We work with industry experts and learning professionals to ensure each path provides you with the skills you need to start your career, earn a promotion, earn critical industry certifications. Learn at your own pace and on your schedule to achieve your goals.

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Cybrary’s community brings together thousands of subject matter experts and industry professionals dedicated to helping you achieve your career goals. Our mentors will provide guidance, help you determine which career is right for you, and provide career advice by reviewing your resume and preparing you to have successful interviews.

Cybrary puts the collective knowledge of top subject matter experts and leading organizations in the cybersecurity industry at your fingertips. Our ever-growing network enables us to move quickly with emerging trends and new technologies to deliver timely, quality content, tools, and resources. Cybrary leverages our partnerships to provide a myriad of learning opportunities to develop your cybersecurity skills and help you achieve your career goals.

Cybersecurity jobs are growing three times faster than information technology jobs. However, this rapidly growing and very exciting industry lacks the number of skilled professionals required to handle the jobs. Some common jobs within Cybersecurity include information assurance, security analyst, penetration tester, malware analyst/reverse engineering and Intel. With these types of opportunities available, aspiring or growing cybersecurity professionals should focus on continually increasing their skill set, because the cybersecurity industry never rests, it is continually changing. However, traditionally, cybersecurity classes are the most expensive training classes. As you know, that barrier to entry has been removed.

Cybersecurity training of all skill levels is now available to everyone so that the aspiring cybersecurity professionals can begin their career and those already in the field can become better and expand their opportunities. Together, we can contribute to everyone’s ability to learn.

Some of the more advanced cybersecurity training classes can be very hard to find, but at Cybrary we are continually looking to add more.

When trying to decide which cybersecurity course on Cybrary is best for you, it is important to consider what you would like to gain from that course. For someone with little to no knowledge of cybersecurity, it is necessary for you to begin by learning the fundamentals, as these will be essential in future courses. In order to build a solid foundational knowledge of cyber security, the best courses to begin with are CompTIA A+ and CompTIA Network+. These two courses will give you the basic knowledge you need to decide which path in cyber security best suits your interests, and with which courses to proceed.

If you already possess this basic knowledge and are looking to advance your career to an intermediate level, then the best course for you to begin with is Security+. Security+ touches on the several branches of cybersecurity and will give you the information you need to decide on a specific advanced course path from there. Each course at Cybrary is taught by professionals who know their topics inside and out. No matter which path you choose, here at Cybrary we can guarantee you quality material at every level.

Cybersecurity training is important for several reasons. Technology is integrated into nearly every aspect of modern life; from our jobs, to our phones, to our cars and homes. As smart technology advances, the ways in which our lives can be greatly impacted by cybercrime increase dramatically. Unfortunately, the scope of the issue is often overlooked. This is because when we think of cybercrime and hacking, we tend to think of what makes national headlines, such as mass identity theft and stock manipulation. In reality there are countless ways that cyber-crimes can affect both your personal and business life, and it is important to realize that the worst outcome of these crimes isn’t always monetary loss.

Imagine a time in the near future when the majority of the population owns self-driving cars. Now imagine the potential damage resulting from a breach in the cyber security of even one of those car companies. This is just one example of the many ways in which improper training, or general lack of training, could prove to be both costly, and deadly. In a world in which technology continues to advance exponentially, the more pertinent question is, in what way is cyber security training not important?