Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Build skills. Earn credentials. Help secure the future.
Cybersecurity threats are real and increasing. This October, build practical skills through role-based learning, live events, interactive challenges, credentials, and community support. Build skills. Earn credentials. Help secure the future.
Sharpen your skills. Strengthen your security.
Explore live events, expert-led training, curated learning pathways, credentials and community opportunities designed to help you build on your cybersecurity skills throughout October.
Skilling playlists
Explore Microsoft curated playlists and events by Training Services Partners across multiple languages and time zones.
Credentials
Earn recognition by completing selected Applied Skills assessments.
Community
Connect with peers and cyber professionals through the ‘Microsoft Cybersecurity Pros’ LinkedIn community.
Featured experience
Put your security skills into action
Analyze security signals, uncover hidden vulnerabilities, prioritize the most critical risks, and leverage Microsoft Security and AI tools to strengthen an organization's defenses.
Defend the Tenant Challenge
Put your technical skill and strategic judgment to the test in the Defend the Tenant Challenge Competition. Step into a realistic Microsoft 365 environment to harden your tenant and provide business impact.
Compete to win a visa gift card – up to $10,000 total prize pool available.*
Want to know more before you start? Join our live session on October 19 to learn what to expect, get your questions answered, and explore materials to help you prepare.
*Terms and conditions apply, contest rules available here
Compete to win a visa gift card – up to $10,000 total prize pool available.*
Want to know more before you start? Join our live session on October 19 to learn what to expect, get your questions answered, and explore materials to help you prepare.
*Terms and conditions apply, contest rules available here
Skilling playlists
Build security skills for your role
Explore curated learning on AI Skills Navigator designed to help you strengthen the security skills most relevant to your role and goals.
Security Professional
Secure your AI workloads layer by layer
Build the skills to confidently secure AI across your organization. Learn how to protect AI applications, govern data, manage risk, and strengthen your security posture in the age of AI.
IT Professional
Defend your tenant
Expand your knowledge of Microsoft 365 security tools and best practices. Explore techniques for preventing attacks, protecting sensitive information, and maintaining business continuity.
Business User
Protect yourself and your data with AI-Powered cybersecurity skills
Advance your understanding of AI-powered cybersecurity and data protection. Build practical AI-powered cybersecurity skills to recognize threats, reduce risk, and protect data, people, and organizations.
Data Professional
Assign ownership and control over your sensitive data
Strengthen your ability to safeguard critical information from evolving threats. Explore best practices for protecting sensitive data, managing access, and preventing unauthorized exposure.
Developers
Ship faster, break less with GitHub code quality
Grow your confidence in using AI to help build better software faster. Discover strategies for improving code quality, reducing risk, and delivering with greater consistency.
Business Leader
Evolve your security strategy in the AI era
Strengthen your ability to secure your organization in an AI-driven world. Explore modern security strategies, governance practices, and defenses for evolving cyber threats.
Security Professional
Enforce conditional access with zero trust policies
Enhance your identity protection capabilities by learning how to identify compromised accounts and respond effectively.
Security Professional
Discover and classify sensitive data across your estate
Design and implement Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft 365 sensitivity labels for audit-ready compliance.
Business User
Recognize and shut down everyday digital threats
Master the basics of cybersecurity and build a strong foundation for protecting yourself and your organization. Learn key security concepts, common attack methods, and essential defense strategies.
Cyber Genius
Build practical security skills with Cyber Genius, a Microsoft-designed learning experience for security professionals. Microsoft Security Solution Engineers walk you through real-world attack scenarios and show how defenders investigate and respond with Microsoft security tools. Practice hands-on, continue the conversation with your dedicated AI Fellow, and prepare for a Microsoft Applied Skills assessment to earn an industry-recognized credential.
Cybersecurity Events
Register for live events
Microsoft and our training services partners bring you a range of instructor-led live events throughout cybersecurity awareness month to help you go deeper with your learning.
Featured resources
Insights informed by trillions of signals daily
Access Microsoft’s latest cybersecurity research, threat intelligence, and expert guidance to better understand today’s threat landscape and prepare for tomorrow’s risks.
Microsoft Digital Defense Report
This report showcases the scale and sophistication of today’s cyber threats, the impact of emerging technologies on those threats, and the strategies that leaders, governments, and defenders can use to defend against them.
Data Security Index 2026 report
Explore the future of data security and its increasing importance as users adopt a growing number of generative AI apps and tools.
Don't leave AI exposed
Discover common AI security challenges organizations face today and learn practical steps you can take now to strengthen your security posture while supporting innovation.
Simplifying Security: Protect Your Growing Business in the AI Era
This e-book breaks down how to modernize your approach with integrated, AI-powered security, so you can reduce risk, respond faster, and stay focused on growth.
Cybersecurity Skilling
Earn a credential
Build the skills and prove your expertise by earning a Microsoft Applied Skill or Microsoft Certification (costs apply for Microsoft Certification exams).
Join the community
At Microsoft, we believe the real magic happens when communities unite. Join the ‘Microsoft Cybersecurity Pros’ community to connect and stay informed.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
- Cybersecurity threats are real and increasing. This October, build practical skills through role-based learning, live events, interactive challenges, credentials, and community support. Build skills. Earn credentials. Help secure the future.
- Everyone is welcome. Whether you’re a security professional, developer, IT professional, data professional, business leader, student, or everyday digital user, you’ll find opportunities to strengthen your expertise, validate your skills, and prepare for an AI-powered future.
- No. You don’t need to work in cybersecurity to make a difference. Learn how to protect yourself and your organization, and develop skills that can help set you apart in the era of AI.
- Choose from role-based learning, live events, interactive challenges, credentials, and guidance from security experts and more than 50 Microsoft MVPs.
- Explore role-based learning on AI Skills Navigator and choose the topics and experience level that align with your responsibilities and goals.
Go to Browse skilling playlists to explore curated playlists - Yes. Take part in free, instructor-led cybersecurity events happening across the globe throughout October.
Go to Events to explore what’s available. - Complete learning experiences and challenges to earn or prepare for credentials, badges, and certification pathways.
- Cyber Genius Day is the kick-off event for Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It is designed as a hands-on launch experience for security professionals and includes sessions such as Keynote, Inside the Breach and Beyond Trust Boundaries. While the event lasts only one day, on-demand content and credentials are still available to explore.
Go to Cyber Genius to explore what’s available.