Getting Started with Cybersecurity | IBM SkillsBuild

Skills & Competencies

Skills developed through this program

Career Pathways

Occupations this program prepares you for

Occupations matched to this program, with median wage, top wage, growth, and openings
SOC	Occupation	Method	Wage	Growth	Openings
Match confidence: high15-1212.00	Information Security Analysts	title_inference	$124,910 median$186,420 top	+28.5%	5,210

Program Pathways

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What You'll Learn

Key competencies developed through this program

Mastery: emerging (Level 1)(based on Course)

SIEM alert triage (Splunk, Sentinel, Chronicle) — investigate per runbook under a senior analyst's review.
Phishing analysis and email-threat investigations — work the queue on a tier-1 rotation.
Vulnerability-scan output (Nessus, Qualys, Wiz) — interpret and prioritize routine findings.
Standard runbooks for common alerts — execute correctly and document outcomes.
Tickets and case-tracking in the ITSM platform — log accurately for downstream investigation.
Endpoint-detection tools (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne) — interpret detections on a standard threat profile.
Common attack frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK) — recognize techniques in alerts at the tactic level.
Authentication and identity basics (SSO, MFA, SAML, OIDC) — explain and apply correctly.
Network-traffic analysis basics (firewall logs, DNS, NetFlow) — read and pattern-match on routine sessions.
Compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001 high-level) — recognize control families in audit prep.

Program Details

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Financial Aid

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