IT 340 - Network Security and Firewalls

Credits: 5
Equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to prepare for entry-level network security specialist careers. A hands-on, career-oriented e-learning solution that emphasizes practical experience. Various types of hands-on labs provide practical experience, including procedural and trouble-shooting labs, skills integration challenges, and model building.

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

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

Understand threat mitigation.
Understand and implement network security management and reporting.
Understand and Implement High Availability.
Understand and Implement Application ID.
Understand the Implementation of site-to-site VPNs.

Program Outcomes

Plan, implement, administer, and support appropriate information technologies and systems to help an organization achieve its goals and objectives. Information technologies and systems may include: servers, client computers, mobile devices, operating systems, network applications, local area networks, wide area networks, wireless networks, network segments, intranets, and so on.
Analyze the security vulnerabilities of an organization’s information technology resources.
Plan and implement security measures and practices for an organization’s information technology resources.
Evaluate user needs and use those needs to plan the implementation of information technology systems that meet those needs.
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.