Cyber Security/Information Assurance, Technical Certificate

GENERAL EDUCATION CORE

• ENGL 111 - English Composition CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• IVYT 115 - Student Success - Information Technology CREDIT HOURS MIN: 1
• MATH 136 - College Algebra CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3 + or higher

PROFESSIONAL - TECHNICAL CORE

• CSIA 105 - Introduction to Cyber Security/Information Assurance CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• CSIA 210 - Network Protocol Analysis CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• INFM 109 - Informatics Fundamentals CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• ITSP 132 - IT Support Essentials I CREDIT HOURS MIN: 2
• ITSP 134 - IT Support Essentials II CREDIT HOURS MIN: 2
• SVAD 111 - Linux and Virtualization Tech CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3

TOTAL CREDITS: 33

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DEGREE OUTCOMES

• Demonstrate proficiency in the use of scripting languages to write simple scripts including simple linear and looping scripts.
• Write simple and compound conditions within a programming language or similar environment.
• Identify the bad actors/entities in cyberspace, compare and contrast their resources, capabilities/techniques, motivations, and aversion to risk.
• Simulate different types of attacks and their characteristics. 
• List the first principles of security and describe why each principle is important to security and how it enables the development of security mechanisms that can implement desired security policies.
• Illustrate basic security design fundamentals that help create systems that are worthy of being trusted.
• Describe potential system attacks and the actors/entities that might perform them and choose the appropriate cyber defense tools, methods and components to demonstrate cyber defense methods to prepare a system to repel attacks and deploy appropriate measures in the event of a system breach.
• Demonstrate the fundamental concepts of information assurance/cyber defense that can be used to provide system security.
• Construct the architecture of a typical, complex system and identify significant vulnerabilities, risks, and points at which specific security technologies/methods should be employed.
• Describe strengths and weaknesses, modes, and issues that have to be addressed in an implementation and describe how cryptography can be used.
• Use the hardware components of modern computing environments and their individual functions.
• Describe and apply the fundamental and higher concepts, technologies, components and issues related to communications and data networks.
• List the applicable laws and policies related to cyber defense and describe the major components of each pertaining to the storage and transmission of data. 
• Describe the responsibilities related to the handling of information about vulnerabilities and how the type of legal dispute including civil, criminal, and private affects the evidence used to resolve industry-wide issues.
• Understand federal, state, and local cyber defense partners/structure. 
• Communicate effectively in written and oral forms.
• Demonstrate critical thinking.
• Apply project management strategies to real-world industry applications.
• Prepare for and attempt one or more industry certification exams.
• Apply an understanding of various IT career opportunities.