Demonstrating Proficiency
CyberForward Badges
CyberForward issues these badges as participants complete courses within each of our offered pathways. These come with linked badges that can be shared on LinkedIn and resumes and CVs to demonstrate technical proficiency across a range of in-demand industry skills.
The Assessing Cyber Risk Badge validates a learner’s understanding of how organizations identify, analyze, prioritize, and communicate cybersecurity risk across internal systems and third-party relationships. Learners completed 8 on-demand courses within this vertical covering risk assessment fundamentals, asset and data context, threat and control concepts, risk analysis and prioritization, risk treatment and reporting, and vendor risk management.
The Designing Business Resilience Badge validates a learner’s understanding of how organizations prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptive events that impact business operations. Learners completed 8 on-demand courses within this vertical covering business continuity foundations, business impact analysis concepts, continuity risk considerations, recovery strategies, disaster recovery essentials, plan structure, validation practices, and emerging resilience considerations such as AI dependencies.
The Securing IT Assets Badge validates a learner’s understanding of modern vulnerability management concepts and risk-based decision-making within IT and security operations. Learners completed 7 on-demand courses within this vertical covering asset visibility, vulnerability identification, risk-based prioritization, remediation decision-making, and security operations alignment.
The Driving Technical Projects Badge validates a learner’s understanding of how technology projects are planned, governed, and delivered within small-to-mid-sized business environments. Learners completed 8 on-demand courses within this vertical covering project foundations, business case development, requirements and scope management, scheduling and estimation, delivery approaches, risk and change control, vendor management, and project closeout.
The Implementing AI Governance Badge validates a learner’s understanding of how organizations govern, assess, and manage risk across the AI lifecycle. Learners completed 7 on-demand courses within this vertical covering the AI lifecycle, governance frameworks, risk management, and secure AI operations.
The Executing Digital Marketing Strategies certification validates a learner’s understanding of how digital marketing programs are planned, measured, and governed across modern channels. Learners completed 8 on-demand courses within this vertical covering marketing fundamentals, audience definition, content and SEO basics, campaign measurement, email and SMS compliance, web privacy and consent, paid media concepts, and optimization and reporting practices.