932,100

The following courses are recommended for this track:

IT Professional + Security

Courses should include:

• Principles of Information Security: This course covers concepts including identifying risk, risk mitigation activities, and providing infrastructure, application, information, and operational security. In addition, the participants will apply security controls to maintain confidentiality, integrity, and availability, identify appropriate technologies and products, troubleshoot security events and incidents, and operate with an awareness of applicable policies, laws, and regulations. Participants will be prepared to attempt the CompTIA® Security+ exam.

• CISCO Routing and Switching: In this course, students are introduced to computer forensics and incident response essentials and shows the learner how to collect and analyze the digital evidence left behind in a digital crime scene. The goal of computer forensics is to conduct a structured investigation to determine exactly what happened and who was responsible and to perform the investigation in such a way that the results are useful. Topics in this basic module include an understanding of the digital forensics profession and investigation, the investigator’s office and laboratory, data acquisition, processing crimes scenes, working with Windows and CLI systems, current digital forensics tools, and Linux and Macintosh file systems. Topics also include recovering graphic files, digital forensics analysis and validation, virtual machine forensics, live acquisitions and network forensics, email and social media investigations, mobile device forensics, cloud forensics, and writing a report, providing expert testimony in digital investigations, and ethics for being an expert witness.

• Database Security: This course offers a comprehensive overview of network defense. It introduces learners to network security threats and methods for defending the network. Learners are presented with knowledge and skills regarding firewalls and intrusion-detection systems and are provided a basic introduction to encryption. Combining information on the threats to networks, the devices and technologies used to ensure security, as well as concepts such as encryption provides learners with a solid, broad-based approach to network defense.