{"id":221242,"date":"2026-03-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/wor-wic-offers-free-cybersecurity-certificate-training-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:05:09","slug":"wor-wic-offers-free-cybersecurity-certificate-training-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/wor-wic-offers-free-cybersecurity-certificate-training-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Wor-Wic offers free cybersecurity certificate training | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wrde.com\/news\/wor-wic-offers-free-cybersecurity-certificate-training\/article_f42bb9d5-eb20-4148-ae8b-de8421a074cd.html\">Wor-Wic offers free cybersecurity certificate training | News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wrde.com\/news\/wor-wic-offers-free-cybersecurity-certificate-training\/article_f42bb9d5-eb20-4148-ae8b-de8421a074cd.html\">http:\/\/wrde.com\/news\/wor-wic-offers-free-cybersecurity-certificate-training\/article_f42bb9d5-eb20-4148-ae8b-de8421a074cd.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-08 09:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wrde.com\">wrde.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SALISBURY<\/strong>, Md. &#8211; Wor-Wic Community College is offering free cybersecurity certificate training through a partnership with the Cyber Workforce Accelerator program.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"388\" data-end=\"697\">The training, offered through the college\u2019s continuing education and workforce development division, includes 40 hours of online coursework followed by eight hours of hands-on instruction using the BCR Cyber Series 3000 Cyber Range, where participants practice identifying and stopping simulated cyberattacks, says the college.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"1346\">According to Wor-Wic, to participate, applicants must be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"1346\">Maryland residents and U.S. citizens<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"1346\">at least 18 years old or 17 and turning 18 within six months<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"1346\">have no criminal convictions<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"1346\">actively seeking employment in IT or cybersecurity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"1346\">Participants must also have or be working toward an associate degree in IT or cybersecurity, says Wor-Wic, or hold at least two certifications such as CompTIA A+, Network+ or Security+.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"1346\">Participants who successfully complete the course and exam will earn the SOC Operations Analyst I certification, which is recognized by the state of\u00a0Maryland\u00a0and can help qualify them for entry-level cybersecurity jobs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wrde.com\/news\/wor-wic-offers-free-cybersecurity-certificate-training\/article_f42bb9d5-eb20-4148-ae8b-de8421a074cd.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wor-Wic offers free cybersecurity certificate training | News http:\/\/wrde.com\/news\/wor-wic-offers-free-cybersecurity-certificate-training\/article_f42bb9d5-eb20-4148-ae8b-de8421a074cd.html Publish Date: 2026-03-08 09:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/coasttv.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/f\/a1\/fa1d3f22-33e3-4607-b80b-b338f705da50\/69a9cc91102df.image.jpg?crop=1763%2C926%2C0%2C124&resize=1200%2C630&order=crop%2Cresize","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-221242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221244,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221242\/revisions\/221244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}