Advanced Network Security Certificate
如果你有计算机背景，想要发展你的网络安全技能，这个证书可能适合你。
Intended for those already employed in computing, the certificate emphasizes computer security and information assurance concepts augmented with current industry standard techniques. Topics cover threats and vulnerabilities, prevention at the technical (hardware and software) and human levels, detection, response, and management aspects of security.
这个学习计划建立在国家安全电信和系统安全指令(NSTISSI) 4011和4013的基础上。本证书中的每门课程都为学生获得相应的专业证书做了一定的准备。
Program Outcomes
Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:
- 描述:安全信息中的安全威胁、完整性、机密性和可用性。
- Describe security ramifications, technology weaknesses, configuration weaknesses, policy weaknesses, and human errors.
- Describe authentication, understand password issues, Kerberos assumptions, challenge handshake authentication protocol, security tokens, and biometrics.
- Define common Internet components, and identify techniques used in web hacking, attacks and malicious code, IP fragmentation attacks, spoofing, man in the middle, and TCP session hijacking.
- Investigate advanced concepts and procedures related to the transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP).
- Secure version of internet protocol (IP) and internet protocol security (IPSec).
- Describe Web security, SSL and TLS, HTTPS vulnerabilities, javascript, activex, and buffer overflows.
- Secure workstations and servers running current Windows OS software and test the effectiveness of various security measures.
- Investigate measures that can help ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster, such as contingency planning and power and backup issues.
- Identify the basic components of a layered structure for network defense architecture, describe access control objectives, and auditing concepts.
- Analyze network operations risks; conduct network penetration tests; implement network countermeasures.
Program Advising
Meet with your academic advisor regularly to discuss your academic plans and make sure you are on track to graduate and/or transfer. The program advising guide outlines the certificate requirements and is meant to supplement the advising process.
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Careers
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职业机会包括网络分析师、网络管理员、IT经理、互联网安全专家或IT合规专家。
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