Certificate of Core Cybersecurity Business Practices (C3KS)

Cybersecurity is a growing field with many career specializations. Growth in any Cybersecurity career path needs more than just technical skills as shown in the CISO MindMap. The Certificate of Core Cybersecurity Knowledge and Skills (C3KS) is developed to accelerate your career growth by equipping you with core and necessary skills.

Why a new certification? Current security certifications focus on technology and ignore other essential skills required for success as a Cybersecurity professional. C3KS brings together foundational concepts, understanding of commonly used security tools, and business acumen to accelerate your career path.

The primary purpose of C3KS is to demonstrate that a candidate not only has an exceptional knowledge of Cybersecurity domains but is also capable of putting the knowledge into practice by hands on skills. It is a hands-on, experiential learning program. Candidates are required to showcase their expertise and practical skills across all sections of the comprehensive curriculum.

Following is detailed information about the training program and proposed contents.

Problem Statement

  • A vast majority of Cybersecurity professionals lack business acumen, customer experience, and communication skills.
  • Lack of basic business practices and skills becomes a handicap in becoming an effective Cybersecurity professional and enable business.
  • Many security certifications are available but none addresses core Cybersecurity skills and practices necessary

What will this training achieve?

  • Elevate your team’s brand by putting a focus on “creating value”.
  • Help save significant money by “solving the right problem”.
  • Build strong relationships with other teams through “improved communication skills”.

Putting Knowledge into Practice – Participants will be required to put the skills/knowledge into practice by completing an internal project and writing a paper.

C3KS Curriculum Outline – Domains

Based upon the CISO MindMap and to ensure success as a Cybersecurity Professional, the C3KS curriculum includes the following domains.

  1. Information security career paths
  2. Security Architecture and Foundational information security principles
  3. Operating Systems
  4. Fundamentals of Cloud Computing
  5. Networking and application protocols
  6. Application Security
  7. Identity and Access Management
  8. Encryption technologies
  9. Cybersecurity operations
  10. Risk Management
  11. Automation, Analytics, Scripting and Programming
  12. Governance, Compliance, Legal, Audits and Security Program Development
  13. Written and verbal communication
  14. Business Acumen for Information security professionals, Marketing Security Practice, Personal and Team Branding
  15. Team Management
  16. Project Delivery Lifecycle
  17. Business Enablement
  18. Applications of Generative AI in Cybersecurity

Levels of C3KS Certification

There are three levels of certification with increasing levels of sophistication, complexity and depth of knowledge.

  1. C3KS – Associate (Level 1)
  2. C3KS – Professional (Level 2)
  3. C3KS – Expert (Level 3)
  4. C3KS – CISO (Executive Level)

Register Today for More Information

The path to certification includes taking training (or self learning), hands on self-training, and passing a certification exam.

Link for registration –  Register for Cybersecurity Learning Saturday training https://forms.gle/CV2E5E1cXK1LHhXv6