Training and Education Resources for Students
Featured Cybersecurity resources to help supplement your college career.
Grow with Google - Free Tech Certifications for UCCS Students
Through the end of 2027, UCCS students, staff and faculty have access to a number of Grow with Google certification classes and project specializations. If you want to grow your tech/IT/cyber chops in a way that is valued by employers and expands your education with a leading tech vendor, consider Grow with Google.
Professor Messer - Free CompTIA Certification Training
YouTube Channel
Great, current video-based free tutorials to help you study for any CompTIA certification.
NICE Cybersecurity Challenge Project - Build Workforce Experience
Bringing Students the Workforce Experience They Need
The NICE Challenge Project gives students the opportunity to develop real-world cybersecurity skills! Challenges are available in virtualized business environments, making for the most realistic cyber experiences. Assess and build your cyber knowledge, skills and abilities today!
Jeremy’s IT Lab - free CCNA classes
YouTube Channel
Free CCNA (Cisco Certified Networking Admin) classes
Professor Messer - Free CompTIA Certification Training
YouTube Channel
Video-based free tutorials to study for any CompTIA certification
Past UCCS Cyber Event Information & Recordings
Click here for links to specific event recordings, hosted by and/or featuring UCCS Cybersecurity Programs Office. Events include featured speakers, interviews, presentations, panels and other enlightening cybersecurity events.
Network Chuck
YouTube Channel
Everything from CCNA classes, networking tutorials (Linux, VMs, Google Networking, etc.) to product reviews like the new Raspberry Pi -- both the basics and tutorials centered around hacking.
NICE Cybersecurity Challenge Project - Build Workforce Experience
Bringing Students the Workforce Experience They Need
The NICE Challenge Project gives students the opportunity to develop real-world cybersecurity skills! Challenges are available in virtualized business environments, making for the most realistic cyber experiences. Assess and build your cyber knowledge, skills and abilities today!
NSA Podcast: No Such Podcast
The NSA's “No Such Podcast” will consist of 8 episodes. The first two episodes feature an introduction to SIGINT and the facts behind NSA’s cybersecurity mission. Other episodes will cover AI and its role in the future of national security, what it’s like working for the Agency, NSA’s cutting-edge research, NSOC, and women codemakers and codebreakers.
Grow with Google - Free Tech Certifications for UCCS Students
Through the end of 2027, UCCS students, staff and faculty have access to a number of Grow with Google certification classes and project specializations. If you want to grow your tech/IT/cyber chops in a way that is valued by employers and expands your education with a leading tech vendor, consider Grow with Google.
Classes range from 1 - 2 hours to several days of prep prior to taking one of Google's industry-recognized certifications such as AI Essentials, Network Security, Cyber Security and IT Support. There are also job hunting classes like Accelerate Your Job Search.
Instructor-led Cybersecurity Bootcamps for Cyber Cert's
INFOSEC provides boot camps for a variety of well respected cybersecurity certifications including AWS Cloud and Cyber Cert's, CompTIA Cyber & IT Cert's, Cisco CCNA and Cloud Cert's, and ISC2 CISSP Cert. Every boot camp offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee, an exam-pass guarantee and unlimited practice exam attempts.
Cyberdegrees.org
"Big List" of Cybersecurity Resources -- not lyin'.
Websites, books, conference, organizations, podcasts, training -- it's all here.
UCCS College of Business Resources for Ethics and Technology
Cybersecurity is not just for coders or developers. The industry needs candidates who understand the ethics behind cyber as well as the technology and IT skills. The Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative (DFEI) at UCCS is the resource to discover research and attend events on cyber and ethics.
Goodwill of Colorado
Goodwill offer FREE industry training for IT, Cyber and Tech Professions.