Cybersecurity: Your Path to a Future-Proof Career
The recently-released 2025 Job Skills Report by Coursera offers a clear preview of the key skills and learnings that are essential for students, job seekers, and individuals considering a career…
Latest Job Skills Report shows surging demand for cybersecurity skills
The demand for cybersecurity skills is skyrocketing, according to Coursera’s newly released Job Skills Report 2025. Drawing on data from over five million enterprise learners worldwide, the report identifies cybersecurity…
How to Get Into Cyber Security: Pathways to Starting a Security Career
The demand for cybersecurity professionals has never been greater. In 2024, the average organization faced 1,636 cyberattacks per week. That’s a staggering 30% year-over-year increase. And as the volume of…
What a SOC Analyst is and How To Become One
With organizations increasingly facing diverse and sophisticated cyber threats, many lack either the tools, in-house expertise, or both to effectively counter them. As a result, many organizations are now turning…
CompTIA Rebrands CASP+ as SecurityX
CompTIA has unveiled its revamped advanced cybersecurity certification, SecurityX, replacing the long-standing CASP+ credential. This rebranding reflects CompTIA’s commitment to equipping cybersecurity professionals with the skills needed to navigate an…
My Google Cybersecurity Certification Journey: Course 4 Overview
Course 4: Tools of the Trade: Linux and SQL Course 4 of the Coursera Google Cybersecurity Professional Certification program takes us into ‘the wonderful world of operating systems.’ While I…
What a cloud security analyst is and how to become one
Security is the second biggest challenge businesses face when using cloud computing*. This presents a great opportunity for those aspiring to become cloud security analysts. This means that if you…
Google Cloud Cybersecurity Professional Certificate – Impressions After Course 1
I’m finally done with Course 1 of the Coursera Google Cloud Cybersecurity Professional Certificate program and have a certificate to show for it. So far, I’m loving the program and…
My Google Cybersecurity Certification Journey: Course 3 Overview
Connect and Protect: Networks and Network Security Course 3 of the Coursera Google Cybersecurity Professional Certification program is where we see some action—well, figuratively speaking, that is. The course starts…
My First Impressions of the Coursera Google Cloud Cybersecurity Professional Certificate
I’m four days into the Coursera Google Cloud Cybersecurity Professional Certificate program and would like to share my initial impressions based on what I’ve covered so far. There’s always a…