Cybersecurity I - Course Description
Cybersecurity I is a course intended to teach students the basic concepts of cybersecurity. The course places emphasis on security integration, application of cybersecurity practices and devices,, ethics, and best practices management. The fundamental skills in this course cover both in house and external threats to network security and design, how to enforce network level security policies, and how to safeguard an organization's information. Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of cybersecurity concepts, identify fundamental principles of networking systems, understand network infrastructure and networking security, and be able to demonstrate how to implement various aspects of security within a networking system.
1st Semester Syllabus
- Cybersecurity Fundamental Concepts
- Using news articles, research current events on breaches.
- Consult variety of sources to analyze security threats, vulnerabilities and exploits.
- Access Controls
- Gather relevant information from textbooks and online resources to explain the core concepts of access control as they relate to authentication and authorization.
- Interpret instructional materials to analyze and describe the core principles of access controls.
- Demonstrate the use of access controls that apply to user account management, including basic advanced techniques.
- Fundamental Principles of Networking
- Prepare informational artifacts.
- Explain the industry standards used in wireless networks including security protocols used to protect the wireless network.
- Explain how the different types of personal and small business internet connectivity has changed throughout history.
2nd Semester syllabus
- Fundamental Principles of Open Systems and Internet Protocol
- Define and describe the various services used by networks for the transmission of data.
- Using instructional materials, analyze then demonstrate the use of subnets in an organizations network environment.
- Network Infrastructure and Network Security
- Compare and contrast the differences and uses if the internet, Intranets and Extranets.
- Research and describe the most common various methods and technology used to secure networks.
- Fundamental Network Components of Cybersecurity
- Research the different applications if network security devices.
- Demonstrate secure networking techniques by designing a simple secure network.
- Application and Host Systems
- Using news articles and instructional materials, research and report on recent threats and vulnerabilities to systems.
- Differentiate between threats and vulnerabilities and what constitutes a network attack and identify how to differentiate between the different types of application attacks.
- Security Administration
- Research the features and requirements of common security procedures used to protect system resources on a network.