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(Gloucestercitynews.net)(April 28, 2020)--If you are an IT person and want to improve your security skills, then you will need to take on a security and certification course that is especially aimed at it. This course is somewhat essential to know now, given the fact that the world has seen and is facing cyber security threats from all corners.

This course is also helpful for those people who are looking to make a career in IT Security position. However, above and beyond that, this specific course will help you to hone your skills that are necessary to become an efficient and better security tech in your job.

Things that you will learn

Most of these Security+ Certification courses are specifically designed to provide you with a complete and exhaustive knowledge about the security requirements in the IT sector according to the national as well as international protocols. You will be able to handle any types of security issues if you undertake such a course. In this course you will learn different things such as:

• The tools and software available to ensure complete security
• The way to implement these tools and software into the security system and
• The ways in which you can use these tools and software in the best possible and most productive manner. 

Once you are done with this course, you will have the certification as well as the knowledge and confidence to pass any type of IT security exams to become a good IT security tech.

The study tool and on-the-job reference will enable you to grab the best IT security tech job or if you are already into it, get a raise or advance in your career thereafter.

The requirements for the course

You will not need to have extensive knowledge about computers and software to avail such course. It is the course itself that will teach you that. All you need to have is:

• Some fundamental knowledge of computers and
• Some elementary familiarity of the different networks.

Ideally, these courses do not have any specific prerequisites since it will all the topics in detail.

Description of the course

To start with, the security and certification course will be about ten hours in length. It will comprise of several video lectures. However, the time and mode of teaching may differ from one provider to another which is why you are suggested to research and compare different organizations that provide such certification courses.

The course will teach you about:

• Threats and vulnerabilities
• Technologies and tools
• Architecture and design
• Identity and access management
• Risk Management 
• Cryptography and PKI
• Authentication and authorization
• Host, LAN, and app security
• Cloud, wireless, and mobile security
• Environmental security and controls.

This is in fact a course for total IT security learning.

Secondly, after the completion of the course you will be able to pass different level of security tests such as:

• A+
• Security+ and
• Network+ even without any prior IT experience.

With this certificate in hand you can apply for the post of a network engineer at any managed service provider. The certificate will ensure an upward mobility.