Add a security perspective to your testing skills
20 hours · 10 live online sessions · 4 weeks
You already check whether an application works as expected. What happens when someone tries to use it in a way the team never intended?
Could a customer access another customer’s order? Does signing out actually end a session? Could an error message reveal sensitive information?
These questions bring cybersecurity into everyday software testing. This course helps you start asking them—and understand how to investigate simple examples.
Whether you work in manual QA or are exploring IT for the first time, Cybersecurity Introduction gives you an accessible introduction to the field, guided practical experience, and a clearer sense of where you might go next.
Who this course is for
• Manual QA testers who want to recognize security risks and add basic security considerations to their testing.
• People new to IT who want to understand cybersecurity before committing to a longer training program.
• Career explorers who are curious about security roles and want to discover which kinds of work interest them.
No programming or cybersecurity experience is required. Familiarity with software testing is helpful, but lessons introduce the technical concepts you need along the way.
What you will explore
You will learn how computers, operating systems, networks, websites, and APIs connect – and where security problems can arise. We will introduce the main areas of cybersecurity, including penetration testing, security monitoring, application security, and risk management. You will see how their responsibilities differ and how security knowledge can complement an existing QA role.
Alongside these professional perspectives, you will explore essential concepts such as authentication, access control, sessions, vulnerabilities, and basic protective measures.
Learn by trying things yourself
Live sessions combine short explanations, demonstrations, and guided exercises. Your instructor stays available to answer questions and help you work through unfamiliar steps.
During the course, you will:
• Try basic commands in a terminal.
• Inspect web requests and responses with browser developer tools.
• Send simple API requests using Postman.
• Observe how login, sessions, and access permissions affect application behavior.
• Follow a basic security check in a designated training application.
• Write a simple security test case and describe what you observed.
Exercises use a prepared training environment so you can focus on understanding the task. You will work through approachable examples with guidance.
Bring a security mindset to your QA work
For manual testers, the course offers a practical starting point for expanding test coverage.
You can begin identifying scenarios that deserve a security check, asking clearer questions about access permissions and sensitive data, and documenting observations for your team. You will also learn introductory steps used in a security assessment: define what is being checked, identify the expected behavior, collect evidence, and explain the result.
Build experience you can explain
Your completed exercises give you concrete examples to discuss in interviews. We will practice explaining basic concepts and talking through what you did, what you observed, and why it matters.
Depending on the exercises you complete, an Education or Training Projects section of your résumé could include:
• Inspected HTTP requests and responses using browser developer tools.
• Sent and reviewed API requests using Postman in a training environment.
• Created basic security test cases for access control in a training web application.
Decide where to go next
By the end of five weeks, you should understand the language of cybersecurity more clearly, feel more comfortable with basic technical tasks, and have a better sense of which directions you want to explore. You may choose to bring this perspective into your current QA role, continue into practical security training, or investigate a particular security specialization.
This is an introductory course. It builds a foundation for further learning and basic interview conversations; it does not guarantee employment or readiness for a dedicated cybersecurity role.
Start with 20 hours of guided exploration—and make your next career decision with firsthand experience.
CONTACTS
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