AAS in Cybersecurity
West Virginia Northern Community College
Key Information
Campus location
Wheeling, USA
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
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Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Sep 2023
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Introduction
This program is designed for those who want to work in the cybersecurity field of computer information technology.
In addition to General Education Outcomes, students should be able to:
- Identify the scope of security problems, identify risk assessment, and describe malicious logic and security policies.
- Identify major concepts of theories used in Cloud computing and architecture.
- Describe Cloud ROI models, deployment models, and Cloud computing implementation.
- Identify hacker attack techniques and methodologies, network worms, viruses, malicious code, computer crimes, organizational intelligence regarding their technologies, and information technology warfare.
- Identify major concepts used in cybersecurity and the psychological influences of cyber security.
- Describe the mentality of a hacker and a hacker’s manifesto.
- Identify major concepts regarding network security and abnormal networking behavior and its causes.
- Describe network defense fundamentals, concepts related to managing firewalls, and the use of Intrusion Detection Systems.