Associate in Science Degree

(60 Credit Hours)

Program Manager

Jason Reed
941-752-5461
ReedJ@SCF.edu

Program Goal

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers such as, cybersecurity operations analyst, security engineer, cybersecurity operations technician, data communication analyst, intrusion and detection analyst, security architect, or secure software developer in the Information Technology career cluster; which provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Information Technology career cluster.

The content includes but is not limited to the fundamentals of network security, installing, configuring, monitoring, and detecting network violations in the LAN/WAN environment.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate understanding of networked environments, hardware, and software.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the directory services infrastructure and installation.
• Demonstrate an understanding of network access control systems and methodology. Demonstrate understanding of routing concepts and protocols.
• Demonstrate router configuration skills. Complete coding and scripting activities
• Demonstrate proficiency with Internet structure, organization, and navigation. Perform web design/development activities.
• Demonstrate proficiency in analyzing network intrusions Demonstrate proficiency in incident handling and response.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to mitigate network vulnerabilities.
• Explain Legal and ethical issues relative to the information technology environment