Security Essentials

Teams often cite Security Essentials when documenting baseline security-awareness training across IT staff, since the 020-100 exam covers risk assessment, ethical behavior, encryption and device security. Team reporting in CBT Nuggets provides per-learner progress and completion exports that can support audit evidence, while the auditor's control crosswalk decides how the credential maps to any formal framework requirement.

This entry-level credential suits help desk staff, junior administrators and other IT team members who handle everyday security tasks. The linked course prepares them to apply OS and application updates, recognize common vulnerabilities and malware, configure firewalls, and support encryption work such as PKI, X.509 web certificates, hashing and signed or encrypted email. That gives IT leaders a consistent security baseline across first-line roles.

CBT Nuggets Security Essentials courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to Linux's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

From the admin console, managers assign the Security Essentials courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

The linked CBT Nuggets training for the 020-100 exam runs about 22 hours of video. The actual time to certify depends on each team member's starting point with security concepts, networking and encryption.

CBT Nuggets updates Linux course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When Linux restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.