Cybersecurity Essentials
Threats, defences and secure habits — from phishing and ransomware to OWASP web risks and MFA.
Covers the security knowledge every modern employee — and every aspiring SOC, IT or developer hire — is expected to have: core principles, social engineering, network defences, the most common web-application vulnerabilities, identity and authentication, and what to do in the first minutes of an incident.
What it measures
Security Principles
The CIA triad, defence in depth, hashing and encryption.
Threats & Social Engineering
Phishing, spear phishing, vishing, business email compromise and ransomware.
Network Security
Firewalls, VPNs, TLS, DDoS and common ports.
Application Security
SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, OWASP Top 10 and secrets.
Identity & Incident Response
MFA, passwords, patching, logging and first response.
Who it's for
- Students exploring SOC, IT and security careers
- Developers who want secure-coding basics
- Any professional handling company or customer data
How the test works
- 20 questions drawn at random from a larger bank, balanced across every skill area above.
- Answer options are shuffled for each candidate, and the timer keeps running once you start.
- Your answers save automatically. If your connection drops, reopen your link to continue.
- Score 70% or more to earn a verifiable ARISE certificate. You get 2 attempts.
Try a sample question
What is phishing?