Google Cybersecurity
Professional Certificate Project

The Project

The Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate was designed in 2022 by Google's Learning Lab and is hosted on the Coursera.org platform. Google requested assistance with completing multiple hands-on, self-reflection learning activities in order to launch the certificate on time. Constance Burns was invited by Coursera to assist with the completion of this project. Constance contributed 5 hands-on activities to the "Connect and Protect: Networks and Network Security" course. 

The Ed Tech Design Team

Content Creation for Hands-On Activities

Constance contributed the following content to the Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate, Connect and Protect: Networks and Network Security course:

• Activity: Analyze network layer communication

• Activity: Analyze network attacks

  • Simulated Cybersecurity Log: Wireshark TCP/HTTP log​

  • Instructional Reading: How to read the Wireshark TCP/HTTP log

  • Instructional Exemplar: Cybersecurity incident report exemplar

• Activity: Apply OS hardening techniques

• Activity: Analysis of network hardening

• Portfolio Activity: Use the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to respond to a security incident

  • Instructional Reading: Applying the NIST CSF ​

  • Infographic: 5 core functions of the NIST CSF