Prerequisites: CIS 171 and CIS 200 with minimum grades of 2.5 or equivalent experience.
Schedule: Check The Annual Schedule
Instructor: Bill Marshall or Steve Hailey
Guest Speakers: John Wohlfert

This course is part of the Digital Forensics Certificate and both the Information Security Degree and Network Security Certificate. This course will help prepare the student to take CompTIA''s Security+ test.

This course will help students acquire a foundational knowledge of security topics that every information security professional must master, and will also cover the learning objectives for the CompTIA Security+ Certification examination. This certification is used as the foundation for advanced security certifications or career roles.

Students will gain a solid background on firewall architectures, intrusion detection systems, business security concerns, basic cryptography, and operational and organizational security. Analyzing and properly interpreting various log formats will be covered, with an emphasis on the skills needed in this area for the forensic examiner or person working on an incident response team.

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