Cyber-Security Practitioner

About the Program

Program Goal: Career

GE Pattern(s): None

Program Code: 40709.01CA

See AS Degree in Cyber-Security Practitioner.

Program Learning Outcome(s): Upon successful completion of the program, the student will be able to:

1. Implement, and analyze access control, those policies, standards, and procedures that define who users are, what they can do, which resources they can access, and what operations they can perform on a system.
2. Use industry best practices, administer, maintain, and analyze a secure network environment through identification of information assets, and documentation of policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines that ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability.
3. Explain security analysis planning and scoping, conduct information gathering and vulnerability identification, and create reports and communicate results of security tests.
4. Develop and analyze risk, response, and recovery through the review, analysis and implementation processes essential to the identification, measurement and control of loss associated with uncertain events.
5. Analyze and protect systems from malicious code and use countermeasures and prevention techniques for dealing with viruses, worms, logic bombs, Trojan horses and other related forms of intentionally created deviant code.
6. Conceptualize, engineer, integrate and implement secure solutions in complex enterprise environments to build resilient networks.
7. Explain comprehensive data communications and analysis including: The network structure, transmission methods and techniques, transport formats and security measures used to operate both private and public communication networks.