Data security courses can help you learn encryption techniques, risk assessment strategies, incident response planning, and compliance regulations. You can build skills in vulnerability management, threat detection, and secure coding practices. Many courses introduce tools like firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and data loss prevention software, demonstrating how these skills are applied to protect sensitive information and maintain system integrity.

University of Colorado Boulder
Skills you'll gain: Descriptive Statistics, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Regression Analysis, Probability Distribution, Statistical Analysis, R Programming, Data Import/Export, Statistical Modeling, Statistical Methods, Tidyverse (R Package), Data Literacy, Plot (Graphics), Statistics, Data Manipulation, Data Analysis, Statistical Inference, Data Structures
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Cost Benefit Analysis, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Health Assessment, Decision Making, Health Technology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical Terminology, Medical Terminology, Model Evaluation, Quality Assessment
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Google Cloud
Skills you'll gain: Google Gemini, Cloud Deployment, Google Cloud Platform, Application Deployment, Cloud Security, Generative AI, Security Controls, Security Engineering, Vulnerability Assessments
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Ball State University
Skills you'll gain: Statistical Methods, Probability & Statistics, Statistical Modeling, Statistical Programming, Statistical Analysis, Probability Distribution, Statistical Inference, Bayesian Statistics, Data Science, Sampling (Statistics), Statistical Hypothesis Testing, R Programming, Dimensionality Reduction, Simulations, Statistical Visualization
Build toward a degree
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Splunk, Security Controls, Data Pipelines, Data Infrastructure, Systems Administration, System Configuration, Identity and Access Management, Configuration Management, Debugging, Performance Tuning, Software Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Distributed Computing, Data Management
Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Google Cloud
Skills you'll gain: AI Security, Google Gemini, Cloud Security, Generative AI, Security Controls, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Computing, Application Deployment, Security Engineering
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

IIT Guwahati
Skills you'll gain: Package and Software Management, Time Series Analysis and Forecasting, Cloud Computing Architecture, Linear Algebra, Data Structures, Data Warehousing, Model Evaluation, Database Management, Database Theory, Algorithms, Deep Learning, Portfolio Management, Social Network Analysis, Oral Comprehension, Java Programming, C (Programming Language), Spreadsheet Software, Matplotlib, Scatter Plots, Econometrics
Earn a degree
Degree · 1 - 4 Years

University of California, Davis
Skills you'll gain: Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Validation, Data Management, Clinical Data Management, Health Information Management, Data Literacy, Medical Records, Metadata Management, Technical Communication, Change Control
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Edureka
Skills you'll gain: MongoDB, NoSQL, Database Management, Data Wrangling, Performance Tuning, Database Design, Databases, Data Modeling, Data Store, Query Languages, Scalability, Real Time Data, Disaster Recovery, Data Security
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Google Cloud
Skills you'll gain: Dataflow, Data Pipelines, Serverless Computing, Identity and Access Management, Data Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Cloud Computing, Data Integrity, Performance Tuning, CI/CD, Data Processing, Debugging, Real Time Data, System Monitoring, Data Storage Technologies, Unit Testing, Containerization, Interoperability, File I/O, Data Transformation
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Skills you'll gain: Data Governance, Accounting, Data Management, Internal Controls, Internal Auditing, Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), Auditing, Financial Auditing, Fraud detection, Data Quality, Accounting Software, Data Integrity, Pandas (Python Package), Emerging Technologies, Data Analysis, Analytics, Automation, GitHub, Python Programming, Natural Language Processing
Build toward a degree
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Generative AI, Microsoft Copilot, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Responsible AI, Data Ethics, Autoencoders, Data Security, Information Privacy, Anomaly Detection, Model Evaluation, Data Analysis
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks