Mar 28, 2024  
2019-2020 Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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IT 335 - Network Security Foundations and Policies

Credits: 5
Introduces information, business security, and security laws. Covers a variety of security topics that are integral to today’s information security professionals, including access control, cryptography, and security architecture and design.

Prerequisite: Admission into a BAS in IT program; or instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

  1. Understand Information Security and Risk Management. 
  2. Understand Access controls, Application Security, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning. 
  3. Understand basic Cryptography. 
  4. Understand Regulations, Compliance and Investigations relating to Information Technology security. 
  5. Understand basic Operations, Physical and Environmental Security. 

Program Outcomes
  1. Analyze the security vulnerabilities of an organization’s information technology resources. 
  2. Plan and implement security measures and practices for an organization’s information technology resources. 
  3. Prepare for industry certification exams.


College-wide Outcomes
  • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.



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