Check Point Partners with Coursera to Deliver Free Online Courses, Helping Cyber-Security Professionals Develop Their Skills
June 23 2020 - 6:00AM
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a
leading provider of cybersecurity solutions globally, has
today announced a new partnership with Coursera, a world-leading
online learning platform with over 62 million learners globally.
The partnership will offer a growing series of Check Point
cyber-security courses and content to security and network
professionals.
The Check Point Jump Start series of courses is already
available on the Coursera platform. These are aimed at upskilling
security and IT administrators on cyber-threats and security
management across mid-size and larger enterprise networks.
The series will soon be augmented with cloud security courses aimed
at DevOps and DevSecOps specialists.
The partnership with Coursera further underlines Check Point’s
commitment to providing ongoing education and training to
professionals already working in cyber security, as well as to
those looking to start a career in the sector. In March this
year, Check Point announced the 100th academic institution has
signed up to its SecureAcademy program which offers a comprehensive
cyber security curriculum to students, with courses available at
over 100 universities in 40 countries. All courses are free of
charge to attract more people into the industry, to help reduce the
cyber-skills gap. Recent research shows the current number of
unfilled cyber security roles stands at 4.07 million professionals
globally, up from 2.93 million last year.
“If we are to close the global cyber-security skills gap, we
need to make it easier for both professionals and students to
access learning materials to help them expand their knowledge at
their own pace, and according to their needs,” said Shay Solomon,
Director, Training Business Development, Check Point Software
Technologies. “Partnering with Coursera is a key step in helping us
to do that. Combined with our initiatives such as SecureAcademy, it
will enable us to further accelerate both formal cyber-security
education and professional development for students at all
levels.”
Check Point also offers CloudGuard
Cyber-Range training. These courses deliver immersive
cyber security training in simulated environments via the flexible
Cyber Range cloud platform, offering an engaging, gamified learning
environment. Training is fully adaptive to users’ needs with
built-in debriefing and progression tracking.
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About Check Point Software Technologies
Ltd.Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
(www.checkpoint.com) is a leading provider of cyber security
solutions to governments and corporate enterprises globally. Its
solutions protect customers from 5th generation cyber-attacks with
an industry leading catch rate of malware, ransomware and other
types of attacks. Check Point offers its multilevel security
architecture, Infinity Total Protection with Gen V advanced threat
prevention, which defends enterprises’ cloud, network and mobile
device held information. Check Point provides the most
comprehensive and intuitive one point of control security
management system. Check Point protects over 100,000 organizations
of all sizes.
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