CANFIELD, Ohio – The Mahoning County Career & Technical Center Adult Career Center is offering a Cybersecurity Essentials course through a grant from the Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation and the Ohio Department of Development.
The career center submitted an application for the Individual Microcredential Assistance Program in collaboration with Security and Web Infrastructure Institute. The IMAP was created to allow Ohioans to participate in a training program and receive a microcredential.
Cybersecurity Essentials is a free online microcredential course. Through self-guided learning, participants can complete a four-hour comprehensive introduction to cybersecurity, focusing on fundamental concepts, principles and practices.
MCCTC’s IMAP application promotes a cybersecurity microcredential that aligns with high-demand, well-paid IT roles and other sectors such as business, manufacturing and health care across the Youngstown-Warren MSA and the state.
Content of Cybersecurity Essentials includes the basic concepts and principles of cybersecurity and CAI – Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability – rating, identifying and analyzing various types of cyberthreats and attacks and implementing basic security measures to protect information systems, the basics of cryptography and how it is used to secure information and the importance of cybersecurity governance.
Click HERE to enroll in the course, or call the Adult Career Center office at 330 729 4100 for registration assistance.
When developing or updating its program offerings, MCCTC relies on engagement with workforce stakeholders and data analysis. Data sources include the Ohio Department of Higher Education, Education & Workforce Development, as well as the Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation, which publishes the Ohio Top Jobs List.