CyberGirls Fellowship is a 1-year program of CyberSafe Foundation that equips girls and women aged 18 – 28 years old with globally sought-after cybersecurity skills, positioning them to start a career in cybersecurity and helping them to seize work opportunities within Africa and across the world. CyberGirls seeks to achieve SDGs 1 – No Poverty, 4 – Education, 10 – Reduced inequalities.
This initiative aims at combating poverty, cybercrime, cybersecurity skills shortage, unemployment and gender disparity in the tech industry (particularly cybersecurity niche).
During the one-year fellowship, the CyberGirls beneficiaries will be exposed to computing and cybersecurity fundamentals, career paths in cybersecurity and upon choosing a desired career path, will be taken through an appropriate learning path to get hands-on skills, mentorship, become certification ready, get paid internship/job shadowing opportunities and if old enough secure entry level job placement.
This project is sponsored by partnerships, financial and in-kind support from well-meaning individuals and organisations.
The objective of the fellowship is to improve the socio-economic well-being of girls and women (18 – 28 years old) in Africa, by empowering them with job-ready cybersecurity skills through intensive training, mentorship, internship placement.
Learning Paths
The learning journey has been designed to begin with digital literacy and systematic progress from basic cybersecurity concepts to more specialised niche cybersecurity learning. Midway through the fellowship, beneficiaries will choose and focus on one of the following tracks/career paths.
Threat Intelligence
Learn to use data generated by networks, applications, and other IT infrastructure to assess and improve organizations security posture.
Incident Analysis/Response (SOC analyst level 1)
Covers various incident analysis tools and techniques that support vulnerability analysis , intrusion detection, attack protection, and network/resources repair.
Cloud Security
Learn and apply basic network security techniques in the cloud environment, assess levels of risk and recent vulnerabilities that apply to cloud services.
IT Security Audit
This covers the fundamental knowledge of Security auditing. What IT Security Audit is, It's importance and how it can be conducted.
Penetration/Vulnerability Testing
Learn the basics of penetration/vulnerability testing. Using software and command line tools for scanning, reckoning and exploitation.
Eligibility Criteria
Who can be part of this fellowship?
- Girls and women aged 18 – 28 years old.
- Interested in starting a career in cybersecurity.
- Willing to commit 7 months to the fellowship.
- Undergraduates and graduates.
- Residents in Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt, South Africa, Kenya Rwanda and Zambia.
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