ETA Certified Cyber Fluent Professional
Six courses in three levels: Cyber Fluency and Securing AI at Work, from foundations to advanced.
Six self-paced courses, about 10 hours, in three levels, built on ETA's GUARD framework: Guard identities, Update and maintain, Assess the message, Respect data and Declare fast. Level 1: Foundations is free. Level 2: Practitioner and Level 3: Advanced are included with ETA Pro membership and above, or available to buy on joineta.org. Every module ends with a knowledge check, every course ends with a final assessment, and Level 3 ends with a capstone reviewed by ETA. Finish all three levels to earn the ETA Certified Cyber Fluent Professional certification.
Your path
- Level 1: Foundations · 65 min · 1 credit hourCyber Fluency: Foundations
A plain-language introduction to cybersecurity at work. Learn how attacks really happen and the five GUARD habits that stop most of them: strong sign-ins, updates, spotting scams, careful data handling and fast reporting.
- Level 1: Foundations · 59 min · 1 credit hourSecuring AI at Work: Foundations
A plain-language introduction to the security risks AI brings to work: data leaks, prompt injection, AI-made fakes and agents with too much access. Learn to use AI tools and agents safely with ETA's GUARD framework and Agent Autonomy Ladder.
- Level 2: Practitioner · 2 hr · 2 credit hoursCyber Fluency: Practitioner
Go beyond personal habits: clean up accounts and access, harden payment and help desk processes against fraud, share safely in cloud and chat tools, build ransomware-resistant backups and run the first hour of an incident.
- Level 2: Practitioner · 2 hr · 2 credit hoursSecuring AI at Work: Practitioner
Vet AI tools before you rely on them, control data and connections, handle prompt injection and risky output in practice, defend processes against AI-powered fraud and run agents with guardrails, logs and an off switch.
- Level 3: Advanced · 3 hr · 3 credit hoursCyber Fluency: Advanced
For people who lead security for a team or small organization: organize work with NIST CSF 2.0 and CISA's CPGs, write policies people follow, manage assets, vendors and awareness, plan and rehearse incident response, recover well and build a reviewed Cyber Fluent plan.
- Level 3: Advanced · 3 hr · 3 credit hoursSecuring AI at Work: Advanced
For people who lead AI security: govern with the NIST AI RMF, run an AI inventory and shadow AI program, review AI vendors, threat-model AI workflows with OWASP's lists, govern agents by rung, test and monitor AI, respond to AI incidents and build a reviewed AI security plan.