Cybersecurity Foundations

Risk, controls, identity and encryption: the ISC2 CC syllabus, taught by a practitioner.

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 taught by a practitioner, with graded work.

Before you start

None.

Skills

risk
identity
encryption
incident response

1
The recorded sessions
Taught by an instructor who does the work, 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.

1
Security principles and risk
- CIA triad
- Risk assessment
- Governance
Graded
A risk assessment of a small business
120 min
2
Identity and access
- Authentication
- Authorisation
- Access control models
Graded
An access-control design
120 min
3
Networks and encryption
- Network basics
- Encryption in transit and at rest
- Hardening
Graded
A hardened network design
120 min
4
Incident response and continuity
- The incident lifecycle
- Business continuity
- Disaster recovery
Graded
Nothing to submit; watch and take notes
120 min
5
Security operations
- Logging and monitoring
- Detection playbooks
- Awareness
Graded
A detection playbook
120 min
6
Project: the exam and the audit
- Practice exam
- An audit report
- Readiness
Graded
A practice exam and an audit report
240 min

The projects.

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

1
A risk assessment
Assess a small business's risks.
You hand in
- Assessment
- Recommendations
The rubric requires
Risks ranked with rationale.
2
An access-control design
Design access for a ten-person company.
You hand in
- Design
- Rationale
The rubric requires
Least privilege applied.
3
An audit report
Audit a lab environment.
You hand in
- Report
- Findings
The rubric requires
Findings 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 Foundations

Example

Project
A risk assessment
Risks ranked with rationale.
Graded
Project
An access-control design
Least privilege applied.
Graded
Project
An audit report
Findings 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
After
Your hiring plan
Target roles, the gap map, the proof to send, weekly actions and an interview log.
Kept

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. One email when this course opens.

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.

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.

One email when this course opens.

Recorded by an instructor who does this work, graded by Nova. The waitlist hears the date and the price first, and nothing is charged before it exists.