Choosing a pathway to a promising career in cybersecurity.
University of West Florida
UWF CyberSkills2Work offers a short-term, intensive training program designed to grow the cybersecurity workforce in the areas of systems administration, cyber defense, and AI. The program offers four pathways in an asynchronous and online learning environment. Each provide training, industry certification prep, job-matching support, program support resources, and a career path to the growing field of cybersecurity.
The Systems Administration Pathway is designed to prepare participants for entry-level system administrator or related work roles, which are responsible for setting up and maintaining a system or specific components of a system (for example, installing, configuring, and updating hardware and software; establishing and managing user accounts; overseeing or conducting backup and recovery tasks; implementing operational and technical security controls; and adhering to organizational security policies and procedures). The pathway may lead to cyber defense infrastructure support specialist work role tasks that support tests and implements, deploys, maintains, and administers the infrastructure hardware and software. Graduates could perform other jobs, including as a platform specialist, security administrator, server administrator, system operations personnel, system security administrator, Local Area Network (LAN)/Wide Area Network (WAN) administrator, and UNIX/Windows system administrator, and web administrator.
APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED.
Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
Must be a veteran, transitioning service member, first responder, or government personnel.
Must have at least a high school diploma, GED, or equivalent. (School transcripts of the highest level education completed are required.)
Basic computer and IT skills.
Winter 2025
Start Date: January 21, 2025 • End Date: August 15, 2025
The National Cybersecurity Workforce Development Program, CyberSkills2Work, is funded by the National Security Agency National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) Program and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).