TCM Security Academy Free Courses
Access and status
Cost
Partly free
Part of it is free and part is not. The entry says which part; read that before you plan around it.
Status
Current
Current as at the verification date below. Standards and tools both move — confirm at source before you rely on it.
What it is
TCM Security Academy publishes six courses explicitly marked Free Course: AI 100: Fundamentals (4h), Linux 100: Fundamentals (2h), Practical Help Desk (16h 30m), Practical Security Fundamentals (8h 30m), Programming 100: Fundamentals (3h) and Soft Skills for the Job Market (7h). The rest of the catalogue and all certifications are paid.
Who it is for, and when
Be clear that none of the free courses is digital forensics. What they are good for is the prerequisites people skip: Linux fluency, enough Python to write a parser, and the interviewing and communication material. Practical Security Fundamentals is a reasonable free grounding before any DFIR course.
What it does not cover
No forensics, no incident response, no memory or mobile content in the free tier at all — those sit behind paid courses and the PJIR-style certifications. It is a commercial academy and the free courses are a funnel.
Go to the source
Open at tcm-sec.com (opens in a new tab)https://tcm-sec.com/academy/
Details
- Type
- Free training
- Written for
- New to the fieldNew to the field
- Topics
- free-training, linux, scripting, careers
- Checked at source
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