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18-Week Cybersecurity Bootcamp

Santa Monica College · Santa Monica, CA

Cost
$7,900
Length
18 weeks
Working 6 months later
Not reported

Program names and program descriptions appear here in English, because that is the only language the federal and state records publish them in. Occupation titles are translated where O*NET publishes a Spanish name. Everything else on this page is translated.

What happened to people who took this

No outcomes reported for this program

About a third of California programs report nothing. That is a fact about the program's reporting, not evidence that it works or does not.

The job this trains for

This describes the jobs people do, not the classes this program teaches. It comes from the U.S. Department of Labor, which asks people already doing the work. The Department publishes it in English only, so the job names and the sentences below stay in English on this page.

Where California publishes a separate figure for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County), it appears beneath the statewide one. Statewide stays the headline: people who train here do not necessarily work here.

Information Security Analysts

Job ads may call this: Systems Analyst · Security Analyst · Network Security Analyst · Information Security Officer

Some of what people in this job do. The Department rates how important each one is, and they appear in that order.

  • Develop plans to safeguard computer files against accidental or unauthorized modification, destruction, or disclosure and to meet emergency data processing needs.
  • Monitor current reports of computer viruses to determine when to update virus protection systems.
  • Encrypt data transmissions and erect firewalls to conceal confidential information as it is being transmitted and to keep out tainted digital transfers.
  • Perform risk assessments and execute tests of data processing system to ensure functioning of data processing activities and security measures.
Show 4 more things this job involves
  • Modify computer security files to incorporate new software, correct errors, or change individual access status.
  • Review violations of computer security procedures and discuss procedures with violators to ensure violations are not repeated.
  • Confer with users to discuss issues such as computer data access needs, security violations, and programming changes.
  • Document computer security and emergency measures policies, procedures, and tests.

What this pays in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)

Each bar runs from the lowest-paid tenth to the highest-paid tenth. The darker middle is where half the people are, and the line is the median.

AreaThe lowest-paid tenth earn underHalf earn underThe highest-paid tenth earn over
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$55,747$132,221$201,959
Across California$67,919$142,449$227,186

The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) beside the same figures for the whole state. A region can sit well below or above the statewide spread, and the statewide number is the one most often quoted — so where they differ, the local row is the one that describes the work near this program.

Typical pay in California
$142,449per yearLos Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD: $134,843
Projected openings
13,930Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD: 2,930
Projected change
+29.1%
Usually needs
Bachelor's degree

Getting in

Experience needed first
Under 5 years in a related job
Training after you are hired
None

Employers usually expect some time in a related job as well as the training. Ask the provider what their graduates did before they were hired.

These are the federal government's answers for the occupation, not rules this provider sets. California publishes the same two answers for every one of these jobs.

Program details

This program provides online instruction, e-learning, or distance learning only.

This is an online, live, instructor-led, 18-week program. Students will attend courses and apply their learning to successfully complete project that address different cybersecurity topics. The bootcamp will end with a capstone project where you will apply your learning to real-life cybersecurity challenges. The program modality is distance education as VILT (Virtual Instructor Led Training) set up.

Someone else may be able to pay for this

This program was on California's Eligible Training Provider List when the state last reported it to the U.S. Department of Labor (2026-09-18). Programs on that list can be paid for through an Individual Training Account. Listings are renewed periodically and can lapse, so a program listed when the state last reported may not be listed today. Ask before you rely on it.

Ask before you enroll, not after

The order the rules set out starts at the center rather than at the school. Before a center can find somebody eligible for training services it has to gather enough to decide, at a minimum through an interview, evaluation or assessment and career planning. Referring a person to the provider they have chosen and setting up the account both come after that, and both are the center's to do — the account is a payment agreement with the training provider, and it is the provider that is paid through it. So the call belongs before enrolling and before paying. Anyone who has already done either should still ask, and ask what it means for them.

The place to ask is an America's Job Center of California

  • West LA WorkSource Center/ AJCCComprehensive center

    Phone: 310-309-6000

    5446 Sepulveda BoulevardCulver City, CA 90230about 3.9 miles away

    Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

    Has a veterans' representative

  • South Bay One Stop Business and Career Center - InglewoodComprehensive center

    Phone: 424-419-4343 Ext: 7

    110 South La Brea AvenueLa Brea Place Building, 5th FloorInglewood, CA 90301about 7 miles away

    Hours: Monday - Thursday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Open every other Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

    Has a veterans' representative

  • West Adams WorkSource CenterComprehensive center

    Phone: 323-293-6284

    2900 Crenshaw Blvd.AADAPLos Angeles, CA 90016about 7.3 miles away

    Hours: 9:00am-6:00pm Monday-Friday

At a comprehensive center all the required partner programs can be reached; an affiliate site offers some of them. Distances are straight-line, so the drive is longer. Call before you travel: opening hours here are as the federal directory published them, and the state notes its own staff are not present at every location.

Find a center anywhere in California, and check what is on the list today:
CareerOneStop — American Job Center Finder (U.S. DOL) · California EDD — Office Locator · California EDD — Eligible Training Provider List

How this gets paid for, and what to ask

Whether a person can have a program paid for is decided by their local workforce development board and the America's Job Center staff who interview them — not by this site, and not by the training provider. California has 45 local workforce development areas and each sets its own policies, so the answer can differ between two people in neighboring counties. Nothing here is a promise of funding or a determination of eligibility.

The rules cited here, and the state and federal sites linked to, are published in English.

How this site gets its figures, and what they do not tell you