Foundation of Security - Spring 2026

This is the eleventh iteration of the CWF Foundation of Security since the program started offering career transition training tracks in 2017. The idea of a foundational course in cybersecurity is two-fold: one, to give a comprehensive high-level overview of the different domains of cybersecurity as it is practiced in large and small enterprises; and two, to introduce the course participants to foundational concepts, use-cases, and business and technical vocabulary used in the wide field of cybersecurity.

We are aware that it is an impossible task to understand everything there is to know in the Cybersecurity Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) in 12 weeks - so as an important reminder to all the participants: these weeks of intense learning will require some hours of self-study each week to go deeper into each topic of each domain.

References and recommended reading materials are included in the learning material.