Certification Programmes

MCSI Certification Programs are truly worldclass because the content offers you unique hands-on practical and challenging exercises that teach skills immediately applicable in the field and for career advancement

Certifications
Certification (A-Z) Description Target Audience
Intermediate MBT - Certified Blue Teamer

An MCSI qualified professional Blue Teamer is capable of delivering the full gamut of tasks for the SOC: malware analysis, threat hunting, threat intelligence, digital forensics, incident response and cyber defence.

Students who have successfully achieved their MBT Certification from MCSI can apply for Blue Teamer jobs worldwide with the confidence that they have the competencies the industry is seeking.

  • Aspiring Blue Teamers
  • Security Analyts
  • Incident Responders
  • Threat Hunters
  • Cyber Defenders
  • Threat Intelligence Analysts
Advanced MCD - Certified Code Deobfuscation Specialist

Individuals who have successfully achieved their MCD Certification can defeat code-level obfuscation techniques employed by APTs such as Control Flow Flattening, Opaque Predicates, and Virtual Machines.

This Certification is aimed at malware analysts that want to develop code deobfuscation capabilities to join advanced reverse engineering teams.

  • Malware Analysts
Intermediate MDFIR - Certified DFIR Specialist

An MCSI qualified professional Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) Specialist is capable of delivering enterprise-level incident response engagements.

Students who have successfully achieved their MDFIR Certification from MCSI can apply for digital forensics and incident response jobs worldwide with the confidence that they have the competencies the industry is seeking.

  • Aspiring Blue Teamers
  • Security Analyts
  • Incident Responders
  • Threat Hunters
  • Cyber Defenders
  • Threat Intelligence Analysts
Intermediate MGRC - Certified GRC Expert

This Certification training curriculum by MCSI teaches you how to master every domain of information security governance, risk and compliance:

  • Developing policies, procedures, standards, guides, checklists, workbooks
  • Performing information security audits
  • Managing enterprise cyber security risks
  • Meeting compliance requirements for PCI DSS, ISO 27000, COBIT and GDPR

Students who have successfully achieved their MGRC Certification from MCSI can apply for information security governance, risk and compliance jobs worldwide with the confidence that they have the competencies the industry is seeking.

  • Aspiring GRC practitioners
  • Junior GRC consultants
  • Intermediate GRC consultants
  • Information Security Managers
  • Compliance Officers
Beginner MICS - Introduction to Cyber Security

MICS teaches entry-level cyber security skills in domains such as open-source intelligence, security tools, operational security, network reconnaissance and threat hunting.

Students who have successfully achieved their MICS Certification from MCSI can apply for winter/summer internships worldwide with the confidence that they have the competencies the industry is seeking.

  • High-school students
  • Beginners
Beginner MNSE - Network Security Essentials

By completing this Certification, you will learn fundamental network and endpoint security techniques that will successfully prevent cyber adversaries from breaching into small and medium size IT environments.

This course is ideal for aspiring junior security engineers that wish to acquire practical skills that can benefit a vast number of organisations.

  • Junior Security Engineers
  • System Administrators
Intermediate MPT - Certified Penetration Tester

An MCSI qualified professional penetration tester is capable of delivering web application and infrastructure penetration tests.

Students who hold the MPT Certification from MCSI can apply for Penetration Testing jobs worldwide with the confidence that they have the competencies that the industry is seeking.

  • Aspiring Penetration Testers
  • Penetration Testers
  • Systems Administrators
  • Software Developers
  • Security Engineers
Intermediate MRE - Certified Reverse Engineer

An MCSI qualified professional Malware Analyst is capable of performing static, dynamic and behavioural analysis against complex and modern malware.

Students who have successfully achieved their MRE Certification from MCSI can apply for Malware Analyst jobs worldwide with the confidence that they have the competencies the industry is seeking.

  • Malware Analysts
  • Blue Teamers
  • Incident Responders
  • Threat Intelligence Analysts
Beginner MRI - Remote Internship

The internship teaches skills that can immediately be applied in the field and help you land your first job in cyber security.

Upon completing the training programme, you will receive an industry-recognised Certificate of Completion and a Letter of Recommendation from MCSI.

  • Students who want to land their first job in the cyber security industry
  • IT professionals that want to learn the basics of cyber security
Advanced MRT - Certified Red Teamer

An MCSI qualified professional Red Teamer is capable of delivering the full gamut of Red Team operations.

This course focuses heavily on custom malware development to bypass and evade enterprise security solutions.

Individuals who hold the MRT Certification from MCSI can apply for Red Teamer jobs worldwide with the confidence that they have the competencies that the industry is seeking.

  • Aspiring Red Teamers
  • Red Teamers
  • Penetration Testers
  • Blue Teamers that want to gain a better appreciation of offensive security tradecraft
Intermediate MSE - Certified Security Engineer

An MCSI professional Security Engineer is capable of building and maintaining high security assurance applications for networks deployed on-premise, as well as in data centers, and in the cloud.

Individuals who have successfully achieved their MSE Certification from MCSI can apply for Security Engineering jobs worldwide with the confidence that they have the competencies the industry is seeking.

  • Aspiring Security Engineers
  • Software Developers
  • System Administrators
  • DevOps Engineers
  • Cloud Engineers
  • Technical Managers
Intermediate MTH - Certified Threat Hunter

An MCSI qualified professional Threat Hunter Teamer is capable of delivering threat hunting engagements in large-scale Windows networks.

Students who have successfully achieved their MTH Certification from MCSI can apply for Cyber Threat Hunter jobs worldwide with the confidence that they have the competencies the industry is seeking.

  • Aspiring Threat Hunters
  • Security Analyts
  • Incident Responders
  • Threat Hunters
  • Cyber Defenders
Advanced MTIA - Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst

An MCSI qualified professional Threat Intelligence Analyst is capable of performing situational awareness assessments, intelligence collection, intelligence production and offensive countermeasures, as well as hacking back operations.

Individuals who have successfully achieved their MTIA Certification from MCSI can apply for Threat Intelligence Analyst jobs worldwide with the confidence that they have the competencies the industry is seeking.

  • Security Analyts
  • Incident Responders
  • Threat Hunters
  • Malware Analysts
Advanced MVRE - Certified Vulnerability Researcher and Exploitation Specialist

An MCSI qualified professional Vulnerability Researcher and Exploitation Specialist is capable of identifying software vulnerabilities using techniques such as fuzzing harnesses, patch diffing, taint analysis, SMT solvers, static code analysis and OSINT research. Furthermore, they can also write fully-fledged exploits that bypass mitigations deployed from Windows XP to Windows 10.

Individuals who have successfully achieved their MVRE Certification can discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in software deployed on workstations, servers, smartphones and embedded systems.

  • Penetration Testers
  • Red Teamers
  • Vulnerability Researchers