Program Overview
Cybersecurity Fundamentals Certificate is a structured 24-hour ADR Academy certificate program focused on practical, defensible professional performance. The program combines guided instruction, realistic scenarios, applied tools, knowledge checks, and a final capstone.
Who Should Attend
Government, legal, business, compliance, and administrative professionals responsible for secure digital work.
Program Details
- Total program time: 24 hours
- Delivery: Interactive online and instructor-supported learning; scheduled live virtual or private cohort delivery may also be offered
- Instructor: ADR Academy / Guno O. Ritfeld and approved faculty, as assigned
- Passing standard: 80 percent plus completion of all required activities
- Certificate: ADR Academy certificate issued after Registrar verification
- Individual tuition: $995
Learning Outcomes
- Apply the core standards, terminology, and professional responsibilities associated with this program.
- Use structured tools to plan, document, analyze, and communicate work.
- Recognize risks, limitations, referral points, and quality-control requirements.
- Demonstrate learning through scenarios, work products, assessments, and a capstone.
Eight-Module Curriculum
- Cybersecurity roles, risks, and shared responsibility
- Identity, passwords, multifactor authentication, and access
- Phishing, social engineering, and email security
- Data classification, privacy, and secure handling
- Endpoint, network, cloud, and remote-work safeguards
- Incident identification, reporting, and response
- Vendor and third-party technology risk
- Applied cybersecurity readiness capstone
Completion Requirements
- Complete all eight modules and required learning activities.
- Pass all required knowledge checks and the final assessment with at least 80 percent.
- Submit the applied capstone or work product identified for the course.
- Complete the course evaluation and satisfy identity and participation requirements.
Enrollment and Access
Individual enrollment is completed through the connected ADR Academy product and checkout page. Course access and any scheduled instructor sessions are provided after payment and enrollment confirmation. Agency and private-group delivery is available through the Federal Workforce Consultation request.
Important Credential Notice
ADR Academy awards training certificates of completion. This course does not confer appointment, licensure, law-enforcement authority, or an agency, CIGIE, FLETC, AIG, SHRM, or other third-party credential unless expressly identified in writing.
ADR Academy Support
Contact info@adraceu.com or (703) 584-5504 for enrollment, access, or instructional support.
2026 Curriculum and Completion Plan
This structured 24-hour certificate contains eight sequenced units, applied work products, knowledge checks and a capstone.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply current concepts, standards and professional responsibilities.
- Use structured tools to plan, analyze, document and communicate work.
- Recognize ethical, legal, security, quality and referral risks.
- Demonstrate learning through applied work products and a capstone.
Eight-Module Curriculum
- Module 1: Cybersecurity Roles, Risks and Shared Responsibility — threats, vulnerabilities, risk, governance and individual responsibilities.
- Module 2: Identity, Passwords and Access Control — authentication, authorization, least privilege, MFA and account lifecycle.
- Module 3: Phishing, Social Engineering and Email Security — common manipulation tactics, verification, reporting and protective controls.
- Module 4: Data Classification, Privacy and Secure Handling — data categories, retention, encryption, transfer, disposal and privacy duties.
- Module 5: Endpoint, Network, Cloud and Remote-Work Safeguards — secure configuration, patching, backups, network controls and cloud responsibility.
- Module 6: Incident Identification, Reporting and Response — indicators, containment, preservation, escalation, recovery and lessons learned.
- Module 7: Vendor and Third-Party Technology Risk — due diligence, contract controls, monitoring, supply-chain exposure and exit planning.
- Module 8: Cybersecurity Readiness Capstone — integration of risk, controls, detection, response and continuous improvement.
Learning Resources
Core ADRA curriculum. The previously listed Cengage Management of Cybersecurity resource expired in the institutional selector on June 15, 2026; no unavailable text is required.
Completion Requirements
Complete all eight units in order, finish every required activity, achieve at least 80 percent on required assessments and submit the capstone. Estimated total learning time: 24 hours.
