Career Paths in Cybersecurity & IT
Shape your future in cybersecurity with our industry-aligned Career Paths. Through these focused, role-specific paths, you’ll develop the knowledge and skills to launch your career, transition, or land your dream job. What are you waiting for?
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Learning Tailored to Your Needs
Cybrary Career Paths are comprehensive training programs designed to prepare you for the most
in-demand roles in cybersecurity. Each path follows our Learn, Practice, Prove model and includes different activity types aligned to key topics within the path’s security domain.
As you complete the path, your progress will be measured in real time using Experience Points (XP), which serve as a comprehensive capability score for each topic. Upon completion, you will be rewarded with a shareable digital badge via Credly.
Upskill at Any Stage of Your Career
Explore Cybrary's Career Paths designed to take you from novice to ninja—and anywhere in between.
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IT & Cybersecurity Foundations Career Path
Get everything you need to start your cybersecurity career journey, and stop wasting your time (and money) sorting through unreliable information from questionable sources. While this industry offers very lucrative career opportunities, finding accurate, relevant information to break into the field can be incredibly frustrating. That’s why we’ve crafted this IT and Cybersecurity Foundations path, featuring thoughtful, bite-sized content from expert instructors covering core concepts found across all cybersecurity roles. These instructors have helped thousands of other beginners grasp essential IT and cybersecurity topics. Get ready to take your first steps into cybersecurity by diving into core concepts needed for any cybersecurity role. Build practical skills and gain confidence as you begin your cybersecurity journey.
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SOC Analyst Career Path
SOC Analysts are the front line of defensive security operations and the most in-demand job in cybersecurity. They are responsible for receiving, analyzing, and triaging security tickets as part of an organization’s Security Operations Center. This career path is designed to provide you with foundational knowledge and key skills required to succeed as an entry-level SOC Analyst. Over the course of 20 courses and hands-on virtual labs, you will learn Defensive Security Fundamentals, Log Analysis, Network-Based Detection, and Host-Based Detection. Completing this career path and the associated Assessments will prepare you for pursuing a career as a SOC Analyst and further specializing in advanced skills like Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, Incident Response, Malware Analysis, and Digital Forensics.
Penetration Tester Career Path
Penetration Testers are professional ethical hackers. They are responsible for assessing an organization's defenses from the perspective of a threat actor. This program is designed to provide you with the foundational knowledge and key skills required to succeed as an entry-level Penetration Tester. Over the course of 22 courses and hands-on virtual labs, you will learn Offensive Security Fundamentals, Reconnaissance and Enumeration, Application Attacks, Network Attacks, and Evasion.
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Security Engineer Career Path
Security Engineers are security-minded architects and builders. They are responsible for planning and implementing security controls throughout an IT environment. This career path is designed to provide you with foundational knowledge and key skills required to succeed as an entry-level Security Engineer. In this path, you will learn Security Engineering Fundamentals, Infrastructure Security, Application Security, and Data Security.
Completing this career path and the associated Assessments will prepare you for pursuing a career as a Security Engineer and further specializing in advanced skills like Cloud Security and Cybersecurity Architecture.
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Leadership and Management Career Path
Effective Leadership and Management is critical to any security-related function. Leaders and Managers are responsible for providing the vision and advocacy required for an organization to effectively manage cyber risks. This career path is designed to provide you with foundational knowledge and key skills required to succeed as an effective leader within any security domain.
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Cybrary is just an amazing platform. Literally thousands of hours of quality content. You can find a course or a lab for just about everything, and they are constantly releasing new material. They also have highly responsive customer service. It's been worth every penny.
Greatest investment I have made to dateCybrary is solely responsible for my passing the CompTIA A+ exam and is the reason I am going into my Net+ with confidence. I have learned a great deal through virtual labs, practice tests, recorded lessons, and the various other things they offer. The community is great as well. Got a question about the interview process for a tech job? Ask in discord. Just got a cert? Post it in discord and let the reactions and comments flow making you feel great about yourself. It is an all around wonderful experience and I rate it as a totally worthwile expense for starting or furthering your career in the IT industry. Invest in yourself.
Training is coolEasy to enroll, instructors are enthusiastic and professionnal, technical stuff is very well explained.
I've been having concerns on how to start in terms of building my #cybercareer with a sustained path. So I got introduced to Cybrary and I was able to enroll and startup early last week and I have gone through two sessions, getting to know Cybrary and also a view of what cybersecurity is from their perspective. That gave me an overall view of what jobs are found in the space, their general responsibilities, required skills, necessary certifications and their average salary pay... Cybrary has given me a greater reason to pursue my hearts desire at all cost.
Thanks to Cybrary I'm now a more complete professional! Everyone in [the] cybersecurity area should consider enrollment in any Cybrary courses.
The interviewer said the certifications and training I had completed on my own time showed that I was a quick learner, and they gave me a job offer.
Our partnership with Cybrary has given us the opportunity to provide world-class training materials at no cost to our clients, thanks to the funding we’ve received from the government. Cybrary offers a proven method for building a more skilled cybersecurity workforce.
All of the knowledge, skills, and abilities gained through the program were essential to me impressing the employer during the interview.
Cybrary is a one-stop-shop for my cybersecurity learning needs. Courses on vulnerability management, threat intelligence, and SIEM solutions were key for my early roles. As I grow into leadership roles influencing business policy, I’m confident Cybrary will continue developing the knowledge and skills I need to succeed.
After tens of minutes, I proudly have achieved my certificate of continuing education for Intro to Infosec... Doing everything I can to avoid retaking the CISSP test! Thanks Cybrary - 1 CPE at a time!
We’ve had six students this summer, all with different schedules, so we’ve been trying to balance their learning experience with some practical work. It’s not like they’re all sitting in a classroom at the same time, so the ability for them to learn at their own pace without any additional support has probably been the biggest benefit of using Cybrary.
Just finished the third out of four MITRE ATT&CK Defender courses on Cybrary... If anyone is interested in learning how to do ATT&CK based SOC assessments I would definitely recommend this course. The best part is that it is FREE!
Excellent new series of courses from Cybrary, each course covers a different CVE, demonstrates vulnerability and its mitigation.
I've successfully completed the career path provided by Cybrary to become a SOC Analyst - Level 2. Eventually, do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.
Cybrary is helping me proactively build skills and advance my career. Labs put concepts immediately into practice, reinforcing the content (and saving me time not having to spin up my own VM). Career paths lay everything out clearly, so I know what skills to prioritize.
I got a job as a cybersecurity analyst at Radware with a salary I've never even dreamed about AND with no prior experience.
Thank you to Cybrary for providing this opportunity to complete the Cybrary Orientation Certification program with such sleekness and detail-oriented learning.
So far I have really been enjoying Cybrary's SOC Analyst Training, it has been very informative. I just finished up with the command line section and now I'm on to the more fun stuff (Malware Analysis). I think it's so dope that platforms like this exist. This is a game changer.
I decided to check out Cybrary and the courses they had to offer after seeing a few posts from people who had completed their courses. I'm happy to say that their instructors are knowledgeable and clear, and their course catalogues are extensive and offer relevant career path courses.
Glad to have discovered Cybrary they are such a great tool to use to help diversify your knowledge through lessons, assessments and practices. All compact[ed] into highly detailed and informative chunks of information. Feeling very content with the results.
Well, it took a long time, yet I struggled hard to complete the course "Become a SOC Analyst - Level 2" by Cybrary. Cybrary is the best platform that I have ever come across. Tons of virtual labs, great in-depth insights from the experts, and the best career path/learning modules.
I am currently working in a restaurant and going to school full time. But it is not stopping me from working on gaining more and more skills. I have already spent more than 30 hours on Become a SOC Analyst level 1 [with] Cybrary and still have 67 hours to go.