Cyber Security: DevOps

Macquarie University via Coursera Specialization

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This Specialization combines three advanced, industry-aligned courses, Cyber Security: Applied Cryptography, Cyber Security: DevSecOps, and Cyber Security: Security of AI, to provide a comprehensive pathway into the secure development and protection of next-generation systems. You’ll begin by mastering cryptographic principles and techniques, learning how to safeguard sensitive data at rest, in motion, and in use. Next, you’ll explore DevSecOps, embedding security into every stage of the software development lifecycle, from design and coding through deployment, while automating controls in CI/CD pipelines and securing cloud-native environments. Finally, you’ll address one of the most pressing challenges of our time: protecting artificial intelligence. Through practical, hands-on learning, you’ll uncover how to defend AI models against adversarial attacks, data poisoning, and model theft, while ensuring robust and trustworthy outcomes. Developed by Macquarie University’s Cyber Skills Academy, ranked in the top 1% of universities globally and recognised as Australia’s leading cyber security school, this program blends academic rigor with real-world application. By the end of the Specialization, you’ll be equipped with the skills to design, build, and manage secure systems that combine software, cryptography, and AI, positioning you at the forefront of modern cyber defence.

Syllabus

Course 1: Cyber Security: Applied Cryptography
Course 2: Cyber Security: DevSecOps
Course 3: Cyber Security: Security of AI

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12 hours 38 minutes
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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.
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17 hours 49 minutes
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This course focuses on DevSecOps, integrating security into the software lifecycle. Building and deploying software at scale requires security from the start. Built by the Cyber Skills Academy at Macquarie University, this course provides expertise to embed security into every software development phase. Co-designed with industry, it offers actionable knowledge for developers, engineers, and security professionals. You will learn: • Secure software architecture principles for resilient systems. • Security-aware coding practices, including API, access control, and web vulnerability management. • Application-layer security using static analysis and dependency checks. • CI/CD pipeline hardening with tools like Infrastructure as Code, SLSA, and SBOMs. • Cloud-native security for Azure deployments using containers and Kubernetes. • MLSecOps, addressing machine learning model security within DevSecOps workflows. • Attack surface awareness to anticipate and defend against threats. The course explores real-world tools and frameworks, teaching how to shift security left and build security into every commit, build, and deploy. This course provides skills for secure software delivery, from development to deployment. To succeed, learners should have a basic understanding of software development concepts and familiarity with command-line interfaces.
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13 hours 3 minutes
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AI Security: Risks, Defences and Safety | Defend the Future of Intelligence. As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everything from critical infrastructure to everyday applications, a new frontier of cyber risk has emerged. From adversarial attacks to backdoor exploits, AI systems are now prime targets, and powerful tools, in the hands of threat actors. Secure the Systems That Learn AI Security is your essential guide to defending intelligent systems. Developed by Macquarie University’s Cyber Skills Academy, ranked in the top 1% of universities globally and recognised as Australia’s leading cyber security school, this course has been co-designed with global tech leaders to ensure alignment with emerging threats and international standards. Whether you’re a cyber security professional, developer, data scientist, or policy leader, this course equips you to detect, prevent, and respond to the security risks unique to AI. Through deep, applied learning across six core modules, you’ll gain real-world skills to: • Understand AI systems, their architecture, and the security risks that arise from adversarial inputs, model poisoning, and data leakage. • Assess and mitigate AI-driven cyber-physical risks in Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS). • Navigate threats in real-world AI deployments—from deepfakes and misinformation to ethical misuse and privacy violations. • Apply security testing strategies and technical controls, including encryption, red/purple/blue team exercises, and robustness benchmarking. • Align AI systems with frameworks for Responsible AI, covering fairness, transparency, regulatory compliance, and trust. • Look ahead to the evolving risks posed by Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and deploy proactive defences for the next generation of AI. AI Is the New Attack Surface AI is transforming everything, from how we work to how we’re attacked. This course is built to prepare you for both. You’ll gain the technical fluency, ethical awareness, and strategic insight to secure AI across domains and industries. Lead the defence. Anticipate what’s next. Secure AI now.