Security Pro

About the Program

Program Goal: Career

GE Pattern(s): None

Program Code: SECURITYPRO.CC

This certificate is designed for current ICT Professionals wishing to up-skill their career. It provides a foundation of cyber-security skills applicable to the IT workforce. Students that complete this certificate have the skills necessary to protect data and prevent loss according to industry best practices.

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

1. Implement and analyze access control, 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. 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.
3. 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.
4. Administer 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.