How long is Cybersecurity Foundations?

14 hours of recorded sessions across 6 modules, taken at your own pace. 5 of the modules end in work Nova grades.

Is Cybersecurity Foundations live or self-paced?

Self-paced. The sessions are recorded by an instructor who does this work, and Nova, Square 1's AI tutor, grades every checkpoint and project against a rubric you can read.

How much does Cybersecurity Foundations cost?

A$45 for the founding intake, paid once; the standard price is A$90. It is the same price in every country. Founding students keep their founding price on any second programme.

What will I build in Cybersecurity Foundations?

3 deployed projects: A risk assessment, An access-control design and An audit report. Each is graded against a published rubric and kept on a record an employer can open at /verify.

What skills does Cybersecurity Foundations teach?

risk, identity, encryption and incident response. It prepares you for roles such as Security analyst (entry) and IT support with security.

Does Cybersecurity Foundations guarantee a job?

No. No placement rate is published because there are no graduates to count yet. What you leave with is graded, deployed work on one record an employer can open and run, and a hiring plan you keep with the career agent.

On demandRecorded by an instructor, graded by Nova

Cybersecurity Foundations

Name: Cybersecurity Foundations
Price: 45.00 AUD
Availability: PreOrder

Risk, controls, identity and encryption: the ISC2 CC syllabus, with graded work.

Cybersecurity Foundations is a self-paced online course: 14 hours of recorded sessions across 6 modules, with 5 graded by Nova, Square 1's AI tutor. The founding price is A$45, down from A$90. Start any time and keep your own pace.

Taught with

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Module by module

Module 1Security principles and risk120 min · graded
Module 2Identity and access120 min · graded
Module 3Networks and encryption120 min · graded
Module 4Incident response and continuity120 min
Module 5Security operations120 min · graded
Module 6Project: the exam and the audit240 min · graded

recorded hours: 14
modules, in order: 6
deployed projects: 3
graded checkpoints: 5

Who it is for, and what you receive.

Beginners who want the ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity syllabus, with graded work.

Before you start

None.

Skills

riskidentityencryptionincident response

1
The recorded sessions
Taught by an instructor, taken in order at your own pace, yours for twelve months.
2
Graded work after every module
Exercises and projects marked by Nova against a rubric you can read, with what you did well and what to fix.
3
The projects
Deployed and graded, each one on your record with its repository.
4
Your hiring plan
The same six-part plan the bootcamps use, run with the career agent.
5
The record and the certificate
Every grade at square1ai.com/u/{handle}; a credential ID that resolves at square1ai.com/verify.
6
Nova as your tutor
Help that is about your actual work, because it has read all of it.

The content plan, module by module.

14 recorded hours from an instructor, taken in order at your own pace. Nova grades the work at the end of each module.

CIA triad
Risk assessment
Governance

The projects.

Each is deployed and graded by Nova against a rubric you can read before you start.

Project 1
A risk assessment
A fictional ten-person accounting firm stores client tax files on shared laptops and a cloud drive. Assess its risks using the CIA triad: identify assets and threats, rate likelihood and impact, and recommend controls the owner can afford.
You hand in
- Risk register
- Ranked risk assessment
- Prioritised recommendations
The rubric requires
Risks are ranked with a rationale for each.
Project 2
An access-control design
Design authentication and authorisation for the same firm: partners, accountants, an office manager and a contractor, across email, the cloud drive and the accounting system. Choose an access-control model and justify every permission you grant.
You hand in
- Access-control matrix
- Authentication design
- Rationale for each permission
The rubric requires
Least privilege is applied to every role, including the contractor.
Project 3
An audit report
Audit a prepared lab environment set up as a small office network, checking logging, access, encryption and hardening against what the course taught. Some weaknesses are planted, and your report must find them and rank what to fix first.
You hand in
- Audit report
- Findings with evidence
- Ranked remediation list
- Practice exam result
The rubric requires
Findings are verified against the answer key.

What you can do at the end.

Ready to sit the ISC2 CC exam, with three graded projects on your record.

1
Explain security principles and assess risk for a small business.
2
Design identity and access controls.
3
Design a hardened network with encryption in the right places.
4
Describe incident response and business continuity.
5
Write a detection playbook and sit a practice exam.

Roles this prepares you for

Security analyst (entry)IT support with security

No placement rate is shown, because there are no graduates to count yet. The roles above are what the projects are built for.

Your record at the end.

Every exercise and project is graded by Nova against a rubric you can read, and every grade is kept on one page an employer can open and run. This is what the programme writes to it.

Graded, line by line: Nova reads every submission against the brief and the rubric and returns a score, what you did well and what to fix.
Module by module: Each module ends in graded work; the next opens when you are ready, on your own schedule.
Nova remembers: Help is about your actual work, because the tutor has every submission and every failed exercise of yours.
One page an employer can run: Every grade and project at /verify. An employer opens it and runs the code.

Record, Cybersecurity FoundationsExample

Project
A risk assessment
Risks are ranked with a rationale for each.
Graded
Project
An access-control design
Least privilege is applied to every role, including the contractor.
Graded
Project
An audit report
Findings are verified against the answer key.
Graded
Every module
5 graded checkpoints
Each module ends in work Nova grades line by line against a rubric you can read.
Graded

The entries, not the grades: those are yours to earn. The page lives at /verify and an employer needs no account to open it.

5 entries, at your own pace. Reserving a spot holds the founding price.

Pre-order

How we help you find a job.

Proof, not a certificate: the projects you deployed are the thing you show, and the tools below are yours to use.

The course booklet

The whole plan on a few pages: the parts, the projects, the gates and the price. We email it to you.

Get the booklet

1
Your hiring plan
The same six-part plan the bootcamps use: target roles, the gap map, the proof to send, weekly actions, an interview log, the outcome. You run it with the career agent.
2
A record an employer can run
Your graded projects on /verify. An employer opens it and runs the code.
3
The career agent
Paste a real job posting at /career and it maps the role to your graded work and what to do next.
4
The roles directory
Every role we prepare people for, what it pays and what it asks, at /roles.
5
A path to the live cohort
If you want the instructor, the gates and the hiring sprint, the bootcamp on the same subject is one waitlist away.

Questions people ask.

About Cybersecurity Foundations, answered from the plan on this page.

Founding spots are open. Hold yours.

Recorded by an instructor who does this work, graded by Nova. Spot holders hear the opening date first, and nothing is charged before you confirm.

Ready to sit the ISC2 CC exam
Three graded projects on your record

A$45~~A$90~~