Microsoft GitHub: Cybersecurity for Beginners
What this course covers 📚 🔐 Basic cyber security concepts such as the CIA triad, the differences between risks, threats, etc, 🛡️ Understanding what a security control is and what forms they take. 🌐 Understanding what zero trust is and why this is important in modern cyber security. 🔑 Understanding key concepts and themes across identity, networking, security operations, infrastructure and data security. 🔧 Giving some examples of tools used to implement security controls.
- Date created
- May 21, 2026
- Specialty level
- Foundational
- Training category
- External Course
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Timeline
- 8 Lessons
- Cost
- Free
Course intelligence
Expected end-productTraining Resource
Intended goalsIncludes content about basic security concepts, identity and access management fundamentals, network security fundamentals, security operations fundamentals, application security fundamentals, infrastructure security fundamentals, data security fundamentals, and AI secrutiy fundamentals.
PrerequisitesGit (course can be cloned by Git)
Recommended whenYou want to learn about basic cybersecurity principles
ApplicabilityAnything involving basic cybersecurity principles
Certification examNo exam listed