Cybersecurity

IS/IT professionals know that hackers and cyber-terrorists have now pushed corporations to new levels of alertness, creating the need for heightened security to protect both infrastructure and data. This course provides students with the tools to implement and maintain security within their organization. Specific topics include tools to implement and maintain security within an organization and skills to assess and manage risk as well as evaluate crypto tools.

Course to be sunset by May 30, 2025. The sunset of a course or program does not have any impact on the validity of the earned credential.  Students who are not able to complete a program prior to the sunset date will be able to do so with approved replacement courses in accordance with other academic policies.

This course expands students' knowledge in the IS and IT security field, including the critical security concepts impacting today's businesses. Specific topics include communication security, infrastructure security, cloud computing, cryptography, access control, authentication, external attacks, and operational and organization security.

Course to be sunset by May 30, 2025. The sunset of a course or program does not have any impact on the validity of the earned credential.  Students who are not able to complete a program prior to the sunset date will be able to do so with approved replacement courses in accordance with other academic policies.