AP Cybersecurity is a yearlong high school course that introduces students to cybersecurity and aligns with an introductory college-level course. Students learn to identify threats, analyze vulnerabilities, assess risk, and apply defense-in-depth across physical, digital, and data domains — with AI woven throughout.
The course stands alone — add the Cyber Range and PD to go all in.
A yearlong, college-aligned course — about 130 contact hours covering the full College Board framework.
A secure, sandboxed environment where students run real Linux commands and practice attack & defense for real — never on the school network.
A year-long professional-learning cohort built for AP Cyber teachers — no deep security background required.
How adversaries compromise systems through social engineering, weak authentication, and network risks — and how AI powers both attacks and defense.
The core vocabulary of risk, the CIA triad, security controls, and defense-in-depth — applied to protecting physical spaces.
How connecting devices creates new attack surfaces, and how defenders segment networks, configure firewalls, and read the logs.
How devices store data and get targeted by malware, and how authentication, hashing, anti-malware, and host firewalls defend them.
Protecting the data and applications at the center of the digital world with access control, cryptography, and secure design.
Hands-on labs mapped to every unit, run in the sandboxed CodeHS Cyber Range where students practice real attack and defense.
Explore programs that your students will build throughout this course!
No deep security background required — everything you need to teach AP Cyber with confidence.
Course, Cyber Range, and PD cohort — adopt what you need.
