Cybersecurity

With this program’s targeted focus on IT security and networking, you’ll learn to protect data and networks from cyber threats by performing penetration testing, assessing security risks and implementing appropriate security measures. 

You’ll gain hands-on experience with routing and switching, server virtualization and private cloud computing environments. You’ll explore the concepts of risk, threats, vulnerabilities, attack vectors and exploits while analyzing known security incidents, and will write and apply policies and security framework controls and countermeasures to decrease risk. 

Coursework will prepare you for the CompTIA Security + and Cisco Certified Entry Network Technician (CCENT) certification exams. Some courses are enhanced with hands-on lab activities using our Tech Turf virtual lab environment.

You’ll learn:

• How to configure infrastructure server roles
• Countermeasures and security controls to minimize risk and exposure
• The ethical responsibility of ensuring software correctness, reliability and safety
• Concepts of risk, threats, vulnerabilities, attack vectors and exploits
• To trace and document the steps of a known security incident
• Technical artifact development
• Ethical issues related to cybersecurity
• How to write a companywide security policy
• To design and build virtual computing environments
• Input validation and data sanitization in applications, considering adversarial control of the input channel

The certificate program is designed for students looking to add technical skills in IT security. Graduates have the know-how to manage and secure a Linux operating system, develop and query an information database and create simple scripts. 

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