Professional Certificate in Cyber Security

About this course

This certificate from the IIT Professional Development Unit is an introduction to cyber security for beginners and junior IT staff. Classes are held on Saturday afternoons from 1.30 pm to 5.30 pm in Colombo, with lab demonstrations and hands-on practice. The page gives the length as two and a half months. The nine modules include the CIA triad and security policies, operating system hardening, cryptography and PKI, web vulnerabilities and secure coding, firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs and wireless security, malware and social engineering, ethical and legal aspects, and emerging topics such as cloud, IoT and AI in security. Students awaiting O/L or A/L results, future ethical hackers and IT support staff looking to upskill are the stated audience.