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Pearson
Cybersecurity Prevention and Detection: Unit 4
This course delves into the essential strategies, practices, and technologies that form the backbone of a robust security ecosystem. It guides you through the intricacies of system and network architecture, empowering you to identify vulnerabilities and implement proactive measures. This course is designed to enhance your efficiency as a cybersecurity analyst, equipping you with the skills to streamline operations and respond effectively to cyber threats. By the end of this course, you'll be adept at evaluating risks, recommending controls, and maintaining a secure organizational environment.
Macquarie University
Cyber Security: Applied Cryptography
This Cyber Security: Applied Cryptography course equips you with practical skills to apply cryptographic tools and technologies for real-world security challenges. You will gain capabilities to design, evaluate, and apply cryptographic solutions across enterprise and emerging technology contexts. By the end of this course, you will be able to: • Apply foundational cryptographic building blocks, including symmetric/asymmetric encryption and Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI). •Secure data at rest and in motion, using full-disk encryption and ensuring authenticity. • Utilize cryptography in network security protocols, VPNs, wireless systems, and anonymous browsing technologies like TOR. • Protect intellectual property, software integrity, and operate within secure hardware environments such as HSMs and Trusted Execution Environments. • Understand the cryptographic core of blockchain systems for distributed ledgers, smart contracts, and secure voting. • Prepare for future privacy-preserving technologies like Homomorphic Encryption, Federated Learning, Multi-Party Computation, and post-quantum cryptography. This course is for cyber security professionals, software engineers, or tech decision-makers. To be successful, you should have a basic understanding of computer networks and fundamental security concepts.
University at Buffalo
Blockchain Basics
This first course of the Blockchain specialization provides a broad overview of the essential concepts of blockchain technology – by initially exploring the Bitcoin protocol followed by the Ethereum protocol – to lay the foundation necessary for developing applications and programming. You will be equipped with the knowledge needed to create nodes on your personal Ethereum blockchain, create accounts, unlock accounts, mine, transact, transfer Ethers, and check balances. You will learn about the decentralized peer-to-peer network, an immutable distributed ledger and the trust model that defines a blockchain. This course enables you to explain basic components of a blockchain (transaction, block, block header, and the chain) its operations (verification, validation, and consensus model) underlying algorithms, and essentials of trust (hard fork and soft fork). Content includes the hashing and cryptography foundations indispensable to blockchain programming, which is the focus of two subsequent specialization courses, Smart Contracts and Decentralized Applications (Dapps). You will work on a virtual machine image, specifically created for this course, to build an Ethereum test chain and operate on the chain. This hands-on activity will help you understand the workings of a blockchain, its transactions, blocks and mining. Main concepts are delivered through videos, demos and hands-on exercises.
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Exploración centrada en el paciente
La evolución de los modelos de atención hacia un enfoque integral, en el que la persona está en el centro y se involucra activamente en las decisiones sobre su salud, ha reforzado al Autocuidado y sus elementos como una herramienta fundamental en el control de las enfermedades crónicas; el apoyo a la autogestión ha permitido que las personas viviendo con enfermedades no transmisibles no solamente conozcan su enfermedad, sino que aprendan de ella, se capaciten en el automonitoreo y desarrollen las habilidades necesarias para tomar decisiones para su autocontrol. La Telemedicina ha jugado un papel esencial en este proceso, y a lo largo de los últimos años se ha posicionado como una herramienta clave para fortalecer las conductas de Autocuidado contribuyendo a fomentar que la relación del paciente con el profesional de la salud se convierta en bidireccional y continúe facilitando con esto la comunicación entre ellos y se fortalezca con el apoyo de la tecnología. La Telesalud debe ser entonces difundida como un instrumento para la enseñanza del Autocuidado a través de la capacitación en autoexploración y simulación remota, regidas por las medidas éticas y legales que se fundamentan en el respeto a la confidencialidad, siempre con la persona y sus necesidades en el centro de las decisiones.
Google
Fragen Für Eine Datengesteuerte Entscheidungsfindung Stellen
Dies ist der zweite Kurs des Google Data Analytics Certificate. In diesen Kursen lernen Sie alles, was Sie für eine Einstiegsposition in der Datenanalyse benötigen. Wir bauen auf den Themen aus dem ersten Kurs des Google Data Analytics Certificate auf. Sie lernen mithilfe des Materials, wie Sie effektive Fragen stellen, um datengesteuerte Entscheidungen zu treffen, und gleichzeitig die Bedürfnisse der Stakeholder berücksichtigen. Bei Google tätige Fachleute für Datenanalyse werden Sie weiterhin anleiten und Ihnen praktische Möglichkeiten zeigen, mit denen Sie übliche Aufgaben von Fachleuten für Datenanalyse mithilfe der besten Tools und Ressourcen erledigen können. Nach Abschluss dieses Zertifikatsprogramms sind Lernende gerüstet, um sich auf Einstiegspositionen in der Datenanalyse zu bewerben. Es sind keine Vorkenntnisse erforderlich. Nach Abschluss dieses Kurses können Sie: - effektive Fragetechniken anwenden, die für Ihre Analysen hilfreich sein können. - datengesteuerte Entscheidungsfindungen und die Präsentation von Erkenntnissen überblicken. - zahlreiche reale Fallbeispiele kennenlernen, die zu einem besseren Verständnis für Fragestellungen und Entscheidungsfindungen beitragen. - verstehen, inwiefern und warum Tabellenkalkulationen ein wichtiges Tool in der Datenanalyse sind. - Kernkonzepte des strukturierten Denkens kennenlernen und erkennen, wie Fachleute für Datenanalyse dadurch Probleme besser verstehen und Lösungen entwickeln können. - Strategien für den Umgang mit den Erwartungen der Stakeholder kennenlernen und gleichzeitig für eine klare Kommunikation mit dem Data-Analytics-Team sorgen, um Geschäftsziele zu erreichen.
Packt
Mastering 3D Pathfinding with Octree
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Navigate the complexities of 3D environments with confidence as you master octree-based pathfinding in Unity. This course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to design intelligent navigation systems that are optimized for performance and scalability in large virtual spaces. You'll build a strong understanding of spatial partitioning, waypoint graphs, and advanced AI pathfinding techniques. Your learning journey begins with an introduction to octrees—their structure, base classes, and methods for space division. As you progress, you'll dive into building waypoint graphs, adding nodes and edges, and refining them for optimized navigation. The course culminates with a hands-on exploration of the A* algorithm, showing how it can be powerfully combined with octrees for intelligent, efficient pathfinding. Designed for developers with some Unity experience, this course is ideal for game developers, simulation engineers, and AI enthusiasts. A working knowledge of Unity and C# is recommended. The difficulty level is intermediate, blending theoretical insight with practical application. By the end of the course, you will be able to implement scalable octree structures, develop optimized waypoint systems, integrate A* pathfinding, and build AI agents capable of navigating dynamic 3D environments.
EDUCBA
Data Center Security Management with Microsoft System Center
This comprehensive course equips learners with a deep understanding of modern security principles and practices within IT infrastructure management. Participants explore critical modules covering data center security, compliance management, incident response, and DevSecOps integration. Through theoretical knowledge and practical exercises, learners develop proficiency in designing, implementing, and managing secure IT infrastructures while ensuring regulatory compliance. By course completion, participants possess the skills and expertise necessary to secure, monitor, and maintain robust IT environments against evolving cybersecurity threats. Learning Outcomes: 1) Gain a comprehensive understanding of data center security management principles, including Microsoft Security Management Systems. 2) Develop proficiency in identifying and mitigating common security threats affecting data centers. 3) Understand regulatory and compliance requirements governing data center security practices. 4) Master Microsoft System Center Suite functionalities for IT infrastructure management. 5) Implement data center security policies using Microsoft System Center Suite. 6) Acquire skills in incident response, remediation strategies, and real-time threat detection. 7) Learn security monitoring fundamentals and advanced techniques for proactive threat mitigation. 8) Design effective security architectures and respond effectively to security incidents. 9) Understand compliance frameworks and standards such as PCI DSS and HIPAA. 10) Configure compliance policies with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). 11) Prepare for audits, conduct internal security audits, and manage audit responses effectively. 12) Explore automation and DevSecOps principles for enhancing security in development processes. Unique Features: 1) In-depth coverage of Microsoft System Center Suite functionalities. 2) Emphasis on real-world application and industry-relevant skills. 3) Comprehensive exploration of compliance management and audit preparation. 4) Integration of automation and DevSecOps principles for enhanced security practices. Target Learners: 1) IT professionals involved in data center management and security. 2) Security analysts, administrators, and architects. 3) Compliance officers and auditors. 4) DevOps engineers and developers. Pre-requisites: 1) Basic understanding of IT infrastructure and security concepts. 2) Familiarity with Microsoft System Center Suite is beneficial but not mandatory.
Universitat de Barcelona
EL FONS ANTIC DE LA UB AMB PERSPECTIVA DE GÈNERE
Desde la Universitat de Barcelona os ofrecemos un curso que descubre el riquísimo fondo de la biblioteca patrimonial de la Universidad, la conocida como Biblioteca del Fons antic, pero con una mirada femenina. Pretendemos rescatar la obra y las experiencias de vida de las mujeres de nuestra historia a través de las huellas que dejaron, tanto en los libros como en otra tipología diversa de fuentes escritas o incluso grabados y que se encuentran custodiados en esta biblioteca. El curso por lo tanto tiene un doble objetivo, y puede interesar tanto a las personas que quieran conocer este fondo como a quienes quieran saber algo más sobre las la historia de las mujeres, sobre todo entre los siglos XV-XVI al XIX que es el período cronológico que básicamente abarca el fondo.
Microsoft
Preparing for AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals exam
Microsoft certifications give you a professional advantage by providing globally recognized and industry-endorsed evidence of mastering skills in digital and cloud businesses. In this course, you will prepare to take the AI-900 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals certification exam. You will refresh your knowledge of fundamental principles of machine learning on Microsoft Azure. You will go back over the main consideration of AI workloads and the features of computer vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and conversational AI workloads on Azure. In short, you will recap all the core concepts and skills that are measured by the exam. You will test your knowledge in a series of practice exams mapped to all the main topics covered in the AI-900 exam, ensuring you’re well prepared for certification success. You will prepare to pass the certification exam by taking practice tests with similar formats and content. You will also get a more detailed overview of the Microsoft certification program and where you can go next in your career. You’ll also get tips and tricks, testing strategies, useful resources, and information on how to sign up for the AI-900 proctored exam. By the end of this course, you will be ready to sign-up for and take the AZ-900 exam. This course is intended for candidates with both technical and non-technical backgrounds. Data science and software engineering experience is not required; however, some general programming knowledge or experience would be beneficial. To be successful in this course, you need to have basic computer literacy and proficiency in the English language. You should be familiar with basic computing concepts and terminology, general technology concepts, including concepts of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Coursera
Asana for Beginners: Track project progress
Learners will learn how to log into Asana and create a project, then create the sections and rules in the website project plan project. Next, add a task to the project in the list view. Then learn how to track the progress of the project and add tasks using a board and timeline. Finally, we learned how to track the progress of the project using workflow and a dashboard in Asana.
Pearson
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA): Unit 2
This course teaches you the key skills to deploy, scale, and manage applications in Kubernetes. You’ll start by understanding the differences between deployments, DaemonSets, and StatefulSets, and learn how to run and scale applications using these methods. You’ll cover practical deployment strategies, including using sidecar containers for logging and pod initialization. The course also introduces Helm and Kustomize, showing you how to simplify and manage complex application deployments, with hands-on experience installing and managing Helm charts. Scheduling lessons cover how to control workload placement using labels, affinity and anti-affinity rules, taints, tolerations, quotas, and priorities. Each topic includes hands-on labs so you can apply what you learn.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Alternatives as We Age: Retirement and Legacy Planning
This course delves into the complexities of retirement planning and estate management. It covers various definitions of retirement and examines the financial risks families and consumers face during this stage. You'll explore both qualitative and quantitative retirement challenges and analyze strategies recommended by wealth managers, including annuitization, treasury, bucket, and market-driven approaches. The course evaluates alternative investments through different stages of retirement and uses case studies to illustrate diverse strategies. It also focuses on applying and modeling portfolios within a retirement framework, emphasizing income sustainability. Finally, the course covers estate planning fundamentals and strategies for managing land, alternative, and illiquid investments, as well as philanthropic strategies involving these assets. This course is part of the College of ACES suite of online programs, including the graduate-level certificate, "Land, Agriculture and Alternative Investing" that can be stacked toward a master's degree. To learn more about online programs from the College of ACES and explore ways to apply your Coursera work toward a degree program at the University of Illinois, visit ACES Online at acesonline.illinois.edu.
Coursera
Optimize AI: Fine-Tune & Maximize Accuracy
This course teaches you how to fine-tune powerful vision models and optimize their training for real-world performance. You’ll start by applying transfer learning with a pre-trained ViT-B/16 model, learning how to freeze and selectively unfreeze layers to adapt general visual representations to domain-specific datasets such as retail product images. You’ll then analyze and compare learning-rate schedules, including cosine decay and the one-cycle policy, to understand how each strategy shapes training stability, convergence speed, and validation accuracy. Through hands-on labs, experiment logging, and training-curve interpretation, you’ll practice making informed decisions about which layers to update, which LR schedule to select, and how to balance accuracy with training efficiency. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to fine-tune transformer-based models effectively and choose learning-rate strategies that reduce training time without sacrificing performance.
Yale University
Overcoming Dyslexia
Dyslexia is everywhere, touching so many children and adults, and while science has made extraordinary progress in understanding and clarifying the condition, this incredible powerful knowledge rarely reaches those who most need to know and would greatly benefit from it. Our goal is to change all this with the course you are about to view, produced by Dr. Sally Shaywitz, the Audrey G. Ratner Professor in Learning Development, both the leading scientist studying dyslexia and the most devoted advocate for helping those who are dyslexic. The course addresses and answers just about all the questions you have: beginning with what is reading and what is dyslexia and sharing with you the most up-to-date 21st century federal definition of dyslexia. If you are dyslexic, you’ll come to learn you are not alone – dyslexia is very common affecting one out of five, that is, 20% of the population, including both boys and girls all over the world. The course addresses a major question we hear from so many parents and teachers– how do I know if my child may be dyslexic? What signs or symptoms should I be on the lookout for? And here’s another very important question we hear from so many parents and educators who are eager to do the best for their child – when should screening for dyslexia begin? What is the best method? What should I look for or ask about? A major source of worry for parents is their child’s slow reading- they ask will this prevent a happy future for the child. Yes, dyslexics are slow readers and here, in Coursera, you will come to understand the brain’s role in dyslexia, including slow reading. Great news to share – you will also be so delighted to learn that surrounding a dyslexic’s slow reading is a phenomenal powerful sea of strengths in big picture thinking and reasoning. Dyslexia is a true paradox: dyslexics may be slow readers but at the same time are incredibly fast thinkers! You can be assured, if you care about a child or someone who is dyslexic and have questions or concerns, you will find it addressed here in this course: everything important to know about and help you select the most effective interventions for a dyslexic child; how to go about choosing the best school, including potentially one that is specialized, for such a child, including what is most important to look for when visiting a potential school; the role of accommodations and how to select the best one; and common co-occurring conditions like ADHD and anxiety – their impact, how to recognize and treat. In the following lessons you will meet wonderful, incredibly insightful and highly successful dyslexics – including governors, cardiac surgeons, nationally renowned attorneys, basketball coaches, economists and dyslexic children and their wonderful families who will share their experiences and advice. Enjoy!
Coursera
Game Development: HTML to Unreal Engine Mastery
In the rapidly evolving realm of game development, the transition from foundational concepts to mastering advanced platforms like Unreal Engine marks a pivotal journey for beginners and intermediate enthusiasts alike. This short course is crafted to demystify this path, offering a structured and immersive learning experience that bridges the gap between basic game design principles and the complexities of modern game engines. This course is tailored for aspiring game developers, computer science students, hobbyists, indie game developers, and educators eager to delve into the exciting world of game design and development. Whether you're a novice exploring the fundamentals or an enthusiast seeking to enhance your skills, this course offers valuable insights and practical knowledge applicable to game creation across various platforms. Participants should possess basic computer literacy and familiarity with using web browsers and software applications. An interest in learning about game design and development is essential to fully engage with the course content. With these foundational elements in place, participants can embark on a rewarding journey into the intricacies of game creation and development. Throughout this course, learners will identify foundational concepts and principles of game design and the game development process. They'll create and deploy simple games using HTML5, focusing on game loops, graphics, and sound. Additionally, they'll explore operations within the Unreal Engine, navigating its interface and utilizing its tools for game development. By course end, participants will acquire practical skills in Unreal Engine to design, develop, and complete a basic game project, empowering them to bring their creative visions to life in the digital realm.
Coursera
Design a Business Model Canvas with Miro
This project allows you to create a Business Model Canvas with Miro, an online tool for creating professional graphic visuals and remote collaborative work. You will understand the various features of the platform and you will have all the basic skills to create a Business Model Canvas or economic model for your project with ease. You will learn how to use Miro to easily build your Business Model Canvas and you will be able to present it with clarity. This project is intended for people wishing to develop their professional project or create one.