Cybersecurity, PDUs and LinkedIn Training

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year 2025.  During the holiday season, I had to get fourteen professional development units (PDUs) to maintain my Project Management Professional (PMP) certification by mid-January 2025.  I had my PMP since mid-January 2013.  

The next big question I had was where to get my PDUs and what course I should invest in to earn 14 PDUs.  I decided to go with the LinkedIn Training service because I have been impressed by their improvements in IT learning.  

After watching this video called Satya Nadella On Evolution Of SaaS via Devan Patel's LinkedIn Post

I realized that the world of business applications will be significantly impacted.  Business applications as we know them may not exist in the next five to ten years.  However, I envision cybersecurity staying around and evolving.  Therefore, I took the following cybersecurity classes, which helped me earn my 14 PDUs and learn more about cybersecurity.  I was impressed with the content.  I took the following Cybersecurity classes on LinkedIn Training:

• The Future of Work and Cybersecurity on the Metaverse: 0.75 PDU
• Building and Auditing a Cybersecurity Program: 1.75 PDUs
• Cybersecurity Foundations: Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC): 1.00 PDU
• Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity: 1.50 PDUs
• Cybersecurity Awareness: Cybersecurity Terminology: 1:00 PDU
• Cybersecurity Awareness: Protect Your Privacy: 1.25 PDUs
• Building an Application Security Program: 1.50 PDUs
• Building a Cybersecurity Awareness Program: 1.25 PDUs
• Emotional Intelligence for Cybersecurity Professionals: 0.50 PDU
• Insider Threat Risk Management: 0.50 PDU
• Cybersecurity Awareness: Cloud Security: 0.50 PDU
• Cybersecurity Awareness: Phishing Attacks: 1.00 PDU
• Leveraging AI for Governance, Risk, and Compliance: 0.25 PDU
• The OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model (LLM) Applications: An Overview: 0.75 PDU

That totaled to 13.50 PDUs.  I took the following acquisition classes on LinkedIn Training:

• Outsourcing Management: 0.50 PDU

Overall, I enjoyed all of the courses, and here are my favorites from the list:

• Cybersecurity Awareness: Protect Your Privacy - It provides practical information on how we can protect our privacy online.
• The Future of Work and Cybersecurity on the Metaverse provides insight into how people are addressing cybersecurity in new technologies.
• Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity - It does a good job of defining some of the threats in the AI space.
• The OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model (LLM) Applications: An Overview - It's an overview course that provides insights into the security vulnerabilities of LLM technologies.

I am fortunate to have access to the LinkedIn Training service via my employer and my county library system.  I recommend you check with your county library system to get access to LinkedIn Training since it is an excellent resource if you want to get credits for your professional development to maintain your respective certificates or develop a learning culture with your team.