Let’s tell you the requirements and how to enroll to the online and free course on cybersecurity which is offering UNED (National University of Distance Education), in collaboration with the INCIBE (National Cybersecurity Institute of Spain). And if you are reading this, you better hurry up, because you only have a week to enroll.
It is a course that is a university microcredial. Is completely virtual, and with Your 250 hours equivalent to 10 ECTS credits. It is part of the UNED titles, and in fact it is offered within its permanent training program. And let’s not forget that it has been done in collaboration with an official cybersecurity agency.
Dates and course information
To this course You will be able to enroll from May 30 to June 12, 2025so there is hardly a week left to do it. Then, The course will be from June 9 to November 11.
This course will allow you to learn autonomously without following a pre -established rhythm, although you will have the support of tutors, videoconferences, a didactic guide and Online internal forums to chat about subjects with other students and solve doubts.
At the end, you will have an evaluation that will combine test type exams with several options, practical tests and a final exam, that is, it is not an online course of the lights, but one in which you will have to study well.
When you pass the course, you will have a Digital Microcredial issued by UNED with the Official Inciber recognition. This credential is compatible with the European standards of digital qualifications (EQF).
These are the formative objectives From this course, which are the things you want to learn when you finish it:
- Provide participants with a solid cybersecurity base.
- Develop practical skills for the detection, analysis and mitigation of cyberamenazas.
- Prepare for recognized certifications in the sector.
- Promote practice through virtual laboratories, gamification and applied exercises.
Who is the course for
This course is aimed at several types of people. First, it is aimed at university students or FP They are interested in having more knowledge about cybersecurity.
But in addition to this, they can also study telecommunications or ICT sector professionals, as well as strategic sectors workers that they want to improve their competences in digital issues and related to online safety. Also the members of the State Security Forces and Bodies will be able to do so.
What are the contents
The agenda of this course is structured in five thematic modules. In each of them you are going to learn general aspects and specialized areas with specific issues that range from cybersecurity regulations to incident analysis. These are the modules:
- Introduction to cybersecurity and applicable regulations: You learn the basis of ICT and cybersecurity threats, differentiating it from computer security. It will tell you advanced concepts such as cryptography, blockchain, forensic computer science or ethical hacking, and will tell you the regulations in force in Spain and the EU.
- Administration of cybersecurity systems: It will teach you to plan and manage safe networks, operating systems administration, to detect malware and protect yourself in cloud environments, email and other elements.
- Introduction to industrial cybersecurity: It is set much more on cybersecurity oriented to companies, dealing with issues such as convergence between IT and OT technologies, industrial protocols, the vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure and specific defense tools that you can handle.
- Incident and Forensic Analysis: It teaches you to manage the different security incidents with which you can find yourself. You will learn from to detect threats to recover the systems.
- Regulatory compliance in cybersecurity: In this module you will learn more about the fundamental regulations in the digital field, with all the regulatory frameworks you need to know and their application in practice.
How to enroll


To enroll in this training, you have to go to the page ormacion permanent.fundacion.uned.es/tp_activity/activity/curso-basico-tecnico-de-cibersegridad-de-inibe. On this website, you have to click on Online registration request That will appear in red. You will go to a previous page, and in it you have to click on Start tuition.


This will take you to the page where you have to Identify yourself as a UNED student And you will also have the option to register in the event that you have not done it before. Then you will go to another page where you will have to Writing all your dataincluding your last finished studies, your academic degree and the study center where you were, everything. You will have to give all the data of your knowledge, and accept the data protection clauses.


Finally you will go to the Registration Options page, where you must leave the “Request Subvention” box marked. Then you will go to the payment details page, where you are told the price and it appears as free. The course costs 180 euros but you can have it for free requesting the subsidy, in the event that you are approved.
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