The lack of skills in the IT sector is a problem not to be underestimated: companies all over the world, including Italy, are struggling to find specialized personnel on public administration rticular technological sectors, including cybersecurity. A problem that has prompted companies like Fortinet to offer free professional courses. An initiative launched by the company last year and which has met with great success, recording more than 800. 0 inscriptions, fact that pushed Fortinet to upgrade it for 2021.

Fortinet’s free cybersecurity courses

There are more than 30 the courses offered free of charge by Fortinet , ranging from topics such as SD-WAN security to security in operational technology (OT) and the cloud. There will be laboratory demos recorded by experts, which will be accessible in on-demand mode. Most of these courses are valid for the Fortinet ‘s Certification Program NSE , the company’s certification program structured in 8 levels.

Thanks to the partnership with (ISC) 2 , the participants will be able to obtain continuing professional training credits, specifically, one credit for each hour of lessons followed.

“ With over 800. 00 0 registrations to our free training courses in 2020, it is clear how much the NSE offering of Fortinet is able to satisfy a huge need of security at all levels “- stated Rob Rashotte, Vice President Global Training & Technical Field Enablement of Fortinet – “ We are committed to making the entire catalog of courses for Network Security Experts available at no cost until the skill deficit trend is reversed. By partnering with our ecosystem of academic faculty and business partners , as well as partnerships between the government and NGOs, continue aim to provide the sector with a diversified, equitable and inclusive offer of security professionals “.