Cyber Security

Cybersecurity courses and services in Spanish for Mexico and Latin America

The Instituto Internacional de Seguridad Cibernética, known as IICS, teaches and sells cybersecurity in Spanish to professionals, individual learners and companies in Mexico and across Latin America. Courses run both online and in person. The institute calls itself a pioneer in the field and a leader in designing security solutions and courses, claims that are its own and are not measured here. It builds its work around three strands: services, courses and research.

Practice over theory

Its stated approach is to teach practical knowledge drawn from real business situations, using instructors who are themselves security specialists. The institute says participants who finish a course can go on to work on its own projects, which it presents as a way to turn study into experience.

Ethical hacking beyond port scans

The ethical hacking diploma is described as going deeper than courses that repeat the old routine of scanning ports and vulnerabilities. It covers security of networks, systems and web applications, along with real exploitation. Students look at attacks on patched and unpatched systems and learn how antivirus software can be evaded.

Cloud security

A separate course sets out to clear up the uncertainty and marketing noise around cloud security. It concentrates on best practice, using standards such as those of the Cloud Security Alliance as a reference, and surveys security solutions for the main cloud platforms.

Digital forensics, mobile security and malware

The digital forensics diploma covers crime scene investigation and evidence handling, tracing the source of an attack and analysing digital evidence in varied investigation scenarios, with incident response alongside. A mobile and IoT course treats smartphone and app vulnerabilities, rooting and jailbreaking, operating system and application flaws, mobile penetration testing and bring-your-own-device environments. Further courses teach exploit development across Linux, Windows, iOS and Android, including known and zero-day weaknesses, and malware analysis through reverse engineering with a disassembler, debugger and decompiler, including the techniques malware uses to evade analysis.

A broad 360 course and awareness training

A 360 degree cybersecurity course combines offensive and defensive technique, taking in ethical hacking, forensics, phone hacking, malware analysis, exploit development and cloud security, and is described as a starting point for becoming a security expert. For non-technical staff the institute offers an awareness programme, called a human firewall, which presents security risks in terms of the work each department does and is designed for people without a computing background.