Prepare for Your Next Job in Cybersecurity
Get ready for your next job in Cybersecurity with our guided, job-specific experience. Develop the knowledge and skills to start your career, transition, earn a promotion, or attain industry certifications.


Learning Tailored to Your Needs
Developed by cybersecurity and learning experts, Cybrary Career Paths are a guided experience of curated courses, interactive virtual labs, and practice tests that will help you build the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in your next career move.
New to Cybersecurity?
Explore Cybrary’s library of career paths geared specifically towards beginners. Click on a path below to get started.

IT Foundations
Learn the foundational IT concepts essential to all cybersecurity roles, and stop wasting time trying to figure out where to get started. Too many beginners get discouraged navigating unreliable, outdated, and irrelevant information, making it feel impossible to know how to move forward. That’s why we’ve curated this IT foundations course, featuring thoughtful, bite-sized content from expert instructors who have helped thousands of other beginners grasp essential IT topics. Get ready to take your first steps into cybersecurity by diving into core IT concepts needed for any cybersecurity role.

Cybersecurity Foundations
Get everything you need to start your cybersecurity career journey, and stop wasting your time (and money) sorting through unreliable information from questionable sources. While the industry offers very lucrative career opportunities, finding accurate, relevant information to break into the field can be incredibly frustrating. That’s why we’ve crafted this foundational course, with curated content from expert instructors covering core concepts found across all cybersecurity roles. Build practical skills and gain confidence as you begin your cybersecurity journey.
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Become an Incident Handler
In this Career Path, you will learn the incident response process, from building an incident response kit and developing an incident response team, to identifying, containing, and recovering from incidents. We then steer away from a traditional “defensive-only” approach to introduce you to the attacker’s world.

Become a Penetration Tester
Last year, penetration testers ranked as one of the three most in-demand jobs in the growing cybersecurity job market. To become a penetration tester, a college degree is not necessary since it’s a skills-based profession. Employers want professionals who can demonstrate the required skills, regardless of education. Cybrary offers realistic, virtual lab environments where you will gain real-world, hands-on skills you will use as a penetration tester.

Become a SOC Analyst - Level 3
This Career Path is for a Security Operations Center Analyst (SOC Analyst). This particular Career Path covers a more advanced-level SOC role. As a SOC Analyst, your primary duty is to ensure that the organization’s digital assets are secure and protected from unauthorized access. That means that you are responsible for protecting both online and on-premise infrastructures, monitoring data to identify suspicious activity, and identifying and mitigating risks before there is a breach. In the event that a breach does occur, a SOC analyst will be on the front line, working to counter the attack.

Become a SOC Analyst - Level 2
This Career Path is for a Security Operations Center Analyst (SOC Analyst). This particular Career Path covers a more intermediate-level SOC role. As a SOC Analyst, your primary duty is to ensure that the organization’s digital assets are secure and protected from unauthorized access. That means that you are responsible for protecting both online and on-premise infrastructures, monitoring data to identify suspicious activity, and identifying and mitigating risks before there is a breach. In the event that a breach does occur, a SOC analyst will be on the front line, working to counter the attack. This career path is aligned to the Cyber Defense Incident Responder NICE/NIST Work Role.

Become a Network Engineer
You have chosen a fantastic career in network engineering. More than 8 million network engineering jobs exist and it’s growing. On this career path, you will learn how to protect, administrate, and build best-in-class networks. Master management of systems performance, troubleshoot and diagnose network issues, understand infrastructure protocols, application and transport to empower organizations to scale securely. Cybrary’s trademark virtual lab environments provide students with real-world, hands-on skills and provide experience with today’s latest tools and technologies.
In our community, you will be guided by the top experts in network engineering. We have more than 40 mentors, including our Chief Mentor Mark Nibert, who manages a network operations center for the US government. You will be learning with more than ten thousand community members that are all building their careers in the cybersecurity and technology space. As you grow your career, you will now have a network of people that will help you continuously.

Become a Cyber Security Engineer
In this career path, you will learn what it takes to become a Security Engineer, a role in the highest demand with 57,000+ job openings according to cyberseek.org. Learn to resolve production security issues, configure and manage firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDS), investigate incidents, perform forensics and run incident responses.
Cybrary offers practical, virtual lab environments specific to Cyber Security Engineering that will help you gain real-world, hands-on skills with the industry’s latest tools and technologies.

Become an Azure Cloud Engineer
This Azure Career Path provides a structured curriculum with specialized learning activities that will give you real-world training to become a successful cloud engineer in Microsoft Azure. In this career path, you will learn about cloud computing, cloud infrastructure, networking services, cloud security, virtual machines, and more while preparing you for multiple certifications like the Microsoft Azure AZ-900, Microsoft AZ-104, Microsoft AZ-303, Microsoft AZ-304, and Microsoft AZ-500.
Once you enroll in Cybrary’s Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineer career path, you will be learning alongside ten thousand community members who are all building their career in the cybersecurity, IT, and cloud space. As you grow your career you will now have a network of people through Cybrary who will help you continuously.

Become a CISO
Taught by CISOs for CISOs, this Career Path will provide you with a structured curriculum with specialized learning activities that will give you real-world training on how to become a successful CISO in the ever-changing security field. You will learn about corporate cybersecurity management, NIST 800-53 security and privacy controls, business continuity and disaster planning, enterprise security case management, and numerous competencies of the effective CISO.