This course provides the broad-based knowledge necessary to prepare for further study in specialized Cybersecurity fields and teaches primary topics relating to securing network services, network devices and network traffic. Students will learn about IT industry-wide security topics, including communication security, infrastructure security, cryptography, access control, authentication, external attack, and operational and organization security. Other topics included in this course are protocols used in Linux, UNIX, and Windows in addition to the TCP/IP suite component protocols, and Ethernet operations. This course prepares students for the CompTIA Security+ Exam.

Illustrate working knowledge and understanding of threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities. Categorize the distinct types of social engineering techniques and analyze potential indicators of different cyber-attacks.

Identify, describe, and assess external and internal threats to an organization. Summarize virtualization and cloud computing concepts. Summarize authentication and authorization design concepts. Summarize the basics of cryptographic concepts.

Explain Firewall system planning including levels of protection. Demonstrate the ability to select among available network security technology and protocols such as IDS, IPS, firewalls, SSL, SSH, IPSec, TLS, VPNs, etc

Summarize the importance of policies, processes, and procedures for incident response. Explain the key aspects of digital forensics. Summarize risk management processes and concepts.

Explain privacy and sensitive data concepts in relation to security.