Imagine starting a brand-new career at any time! Can’t commit to full-time? No problem, study at your own pace.
Real-world projects
Acquire the most relevant skills by completing 9 projects based on those required in your future career.
Individual learning support
Benefit from mentoring sessions with an expert in the field.
OpenClassrooms Certification
Leave the path with the “Cybersecurity Analyst” certification.
CybersecurityEU Cybersecurity Analyst
Certification
OpenClassrooms Certification
Training period
6 months full time
Training duration
402 hours supervised
The demand for skilled cybersecurity professionals is exploding across Europe. As organizations face increasingly sophisticated threats, stricter regulations and rising financial risks, protecting information systems has become both a strategic priority and a shared responsibility across sectors.
Yet while job opportunities multiply, there remains a critical skills shortage. That’s where our EU Cybersecurity Analyst reskilling program comes in: aligned with the European Cybersecurity Skills Framework (ECSF), built in partnership with CompTIA, under the Industry-Academia Network of the European Cybersecurity Skills Academy.
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Cybersecurity Analysts: what are their responsibilities?
Cybersecurity professionals are instrumental in safeguarding organizations from cyber threats and ensuring their success. Your role as a cybersecurity professional can cover several domains, often blending, depending on your job and the team's structure:
On the offensive side: Penetration testers and ethical hackers are here to identify vulnerabilities in systems, simulate cyber attacks to test the effectiveness of security measures, and provide recommendations to improve resilience. See ECSF role: Penetration tester
On the defensive side: SOC Analysts and incident responders typically monitor and defend networks against security threats, analyze security breaches, and ensure the integrity of information systems. See ECSF role: Cyber Incident Responder
Governance-wise: GRC analysts – for Governance, Risk, and Compliance – ensure that the organization properly manages risks, follows governance standards, and complies with regulations. See ECSF role: Cybersecurity Risk Manager
As a junior cybersecurity analyst reskilling from an IT background, you might contribute across all these domains to varying degrees depending on your team’s needs. This is why our program develops competencies spanning these ECSF roles, giving you the practical skills to support expert teams from day one while preparing you to specialize as you grow.
What skills will you learn during this training?
Our program propels IT professionals directly into the heart of the cybersecurity arena. We will train you to be versatile, with operational competencies in the pivotal roles of SOC Analyst / Cyber Incident Responder for defensive security, Ethical Hacker / Penetration Tester for offensive security, and GRC Analyst / Risk Manager for governance, risks and compliance.
General security concepts, security architecture, security operations, security program management & oversight, threats, vulnerabilities & mitigations: Our curriculum is meticulously mapped to the CompTIA Security+ certification, well aligned with the ECSF, ensuring both technical excellence and full compliance with European standards.
OpenClassrooms is an authorized CompTIA Delivery Partner. This training includes a voucher for the CompTIA Security+ exam, available upon completion.
Through this program, you’ll acquire the practical skills and certifications employers expect from junior cybersecurity analysts across Europe. Over the course of this training program, we'll thus teach you a variety of skills, including how to:
Raise employees’ awareness and commitment to cybersecurity
Conduct a Web penetration test and share its results and recommendations
Secure critical assets and infrastructure
Automate recurrent activities by writing and running scripts in Python
Investigate cybersecurity incidents and contain attacks
Assess the compliance and risk level of a supplier
In addition to these technical skills, you’ll also learn transversal or "soft" skills, which will help you grow in your career.
This holistic approach ensures you will not just be a specialist in one domain but a fully-fledged junior cybersecurity analyst, prepared to tackle diverse challenges head-on.
The value for your employer and your career is twofold:
Initially, you will bring an immediate proficiency in key cybersecurity activities, executing tasks efficiently, proactively, and reliably.
As you grow in your role over time, you will already possess the foundational knowledge to specialize in any of the three core areas, aligning your skills with the evolving needs of your organization.
How will I learn at OpenClassrooms?
Our learning method is unique and revolves around two elements: professional projects and dedicated mentoring sessions.
Projects
At OpenClassrooms, learning is project-driven because that’s the fastest way to become proficient. Projects offer hands-on experience so you can hit the ground running when you start your new job.
This path has nine projects that you’ll need to complete, one at a time. You’ll receive a detailed brief with the context, customer requirements, and additional details. Then it’s up to you to go and make it real! To do this, you’ll have to be creative, coming up with innovative solutions to the questions at hand.
Want to see an example of a project? Read our blog post here.
You'll practice real-world vulnerability scanning in dedicated online labs, specially designed for this bootcamp and powered by our partner Root-Me Pro.
Mentorship
During your path, you will be assigned a mentor who will offer one-to-one support via weekly video conference sessions. This mentor will offer guidance on your projects, help define objectives, and coach you until you reach them. Our mentors are dedicated professionals who are experts in their field and have experience in sharing their know-how with our students.
Thomas ROCCIA, Senior Security Researcher at Microsoft, and mentor on OpenClassrooms' Cybersecurity paths.
"As a mentor, my role is to support students and share my professional experience in the field of cybersecurity. What's exciting is to guide and accompany enthusiastic and motivated students, as this allows us to develop our pedagogical skills and transmit our passion for this constantly evolving field." Thomas
Online, but never alone!
In addition to your one-to-one weekly mentorship sessions, you also have access to:
OpenClassrooms staff who’ll help you succeed in your reskilling.
Our global community of student peers with whom you’ll be in regular contact through our online platform.
Are you eligible for this program?
To be eligible for this program, you must demonstrate proof of the following prerequisites:
Holding a post-secondary degree in IT (equivalent to an Associate’s degree or a Level 5 qualification, such as a Higher National Diploma or equivalent), awarded by a recognized institution;
Or, possessing at least 2 years of professional experience in IT;
Language: an intermediate level of English (B1) is required.
Equipment:
Access to a computer (PC or Mac with x86-64 CPU) with at least 8GB RAM (16GB recommended) and 50GB free storage (100GB recommended).
A stable internet connection, headphones, and a webcam.
Administrator rights to your computer in order to install required tools.
Ready to start your cybersecurity career?
Apply now to join the next cohort of the EU Cybersecurity Analyst reskilling program and become job-ready with skills recognized across Europe.
OpenClassrooms Certification
OpenClassrooms is an online training educational establishment, declared as such by the French authority ‘le rectorat de l'Académie de Paris’.
Once you’ve completed your training program, and subject to validating your skills, you will receive the OpenClassrooms standard certificate "Cybersecurity Analyst".
Your certificate
OpenClassrooms is an online training educational establishment, declared as such by the French authority ‘le rectorat de l'Académie de Paris’.
Once you’ve completed your training program, and subject to validating your skills, you will receive the OpenClassrooms standard certificate "Cybersecurity Analyst".
CybersecurityEU Cybersecurity Analyst
Certification
OpenClassrooms Certification
Training period
6 months full time
Training duration
402 hours supervised
A teaching method based on practical experience.
Acquire key skills for your future career with real-world projects.
Make progress with the support of an experienced professional.
Acquire concrete know-how and demonstrate it with a portfolio.
Detailed projects and skills
project 1
Dive into Your Cybersecurity Analyst Training
Discover your projects and plan your training.
12 hours supervised
Skills acquired in this project
Prepare for your training
project 2
Raise Employees' Awareness and Commitment to Cybersecurity
Your organization’s employees’ cybersecurity habits have led to serious incidents in the past. Your mission: to draw up a user charter and organize its deployment to win everyone’s engagement.
50 hours supervised
Skills acquired in this project
Communicate with policy violators to ensure future compliance
Raise awareness within the company on cybersecurity issues
Write a user charter supporting the global security policy
project 3
Let's Capture Flags - CTF Challenges
As a cybersecurity enthusiast, discover Root-Me and solve challenges in different categories in order to adopt the mindset of an attacker.
20 hours supervised
Skills acquired in this project
Perform penetration tests on web applications
project 4
Conduct a Web Penetration Test
Assess the security of a client’s information system by conducting a web penetration test, from enumeration to the exploitation of vulnerabilities, in order to provide a detailed report.
40 hours supervised
Skills acquired in this project
Compile your findings into a clear and professional report for your supervisor
Conduct penetration tests to evaluate the risks associated with those vulnerabilities
Explore a website to map its structure and functionalities
Identify potential vulnerabilities that could compromise its security
project 5
Secure Critical Assets and Infrastructure
An audit has been conducted on your company's Active Directory infrastructure. Based on the raw recommendations provided by the auditor, you are tasked with creating an efficient and prioritized action plan.
60 hours supervised
Skills acquired in this project
Secure the company infrastructure
Translate audit recommendations into a comprehensive action plan
project 6
Write and Run Scripts in Python
A web hosting company supervising its public IPs wants to automate the neutralization of compromised files. Automate the cleaning of compromised files with Python.
30 hours supervised
Skills acquired in this project
Contain a simple security incident
Solve a security incident by following SOC procedures
project 7
Investigate cybersecurity incidents and contain attacks
Based on observable elements collected, you will carry out in-depth analyses of several security incidents and identify possible containment actions.
80 hours supervised
Skills acquired in this project
Investigate a cybersecurity incident
Respond to an email phishing attack
Write an incident report with recommendations for the company
project 8
Assess the Compliance and Risk Level of a Supplier
Find a partner contractor with whom your organization works and perform a third party compliance assessment and a risk assessment on them to reduce the risk of a supply-chain attack.
60 hours supervised
Skills acquired in this project
Assess an organization 's compliance with a cybersecurity framework (NIST CSF/ISO 27001)
Perform a risk assessment
project 9
Keep Your Exposure to Compromise under Control
Perform a vulnerability watch and extract patches to be deployed, fixes to be applied and IOCs to be hunted. From this, develop a pragmatic action plan to maintain control over the risks of compromise.
50 hours supervised
Skills acquired in this project
Analyse packet capture file
Contribute to cybersecurity watch and threat activities
Identify IS security breaches and risk of compromise
Write scripts to find IOCS / automate blocking of IOCs
One-to-one learning support
Benefit from individual mentoring sessions with a professional expert in the field.
Progress rapidly through projects thanks to their expertise in sharing know-how.
The OpenClassrooms community
Count on our solid student community to give you support 24-7.
Share your doubts or queries with a comprehensive network of students, mentors, and graduates.
How exactly will I learn on an OpenClassrooms path?
From choosing what to study to starting their new career, our students describe their experiences and the support they received at every step of the way.
This training program requires an estimated time commitment of 804 hours, including 402 hours supervised.
Training duration details
The total training duration consists of:
402 hours supervised with projects, coached by mentors
402 hours guided with courses and educational resources
The training period can be extended in the case of part time training. The average duration is estimated and depends on your entry level into training, the time allocated per week, your availability, your capacity, and learning pace.
