BAS in Cybersecurity Courses Map

CBAS 321 Enterprise Networking Foundation

This course provides a wide overview of computer networking concepts. Students learn to configure, manage, and maintain essential network devices. Implement network security, standards, and protocols. Troubleshoot network problems and create virtualized networks. The course may help prepare students to attain the industry certification CompTIA Network+.

Topics

• • Network Security.

Objectives

• • CO1 - Analyze user requirements to design and implement functional networks.
  • CO2 - Configure, manage, and maintain essential network devices.
  • CO3 - Evaluate benefits and drawbacks of existing network configurations.
  • CO4 - Create resilient networks.
  • CO5 - Implement network security, standards, and protocols.
  • CO6 - Evaluate available information to troubleshoot network problems.

CBAS 361 Cybersecurity Programming Foundation

Students learn to use the Python programming language to accomplish coding tasks related to the basics of programming and the fundamental notions and techniques used in object-oriented programming. The course may help prepare students to attain the industry certification PCAP (Certified Associate in Python Programming) from the Python Institute.

Topics

• • Secure Coding.

Objectives

• • CO1 - Demonstrate the fundamentals of computer programming.
  • CO2 - Demonstrate the basic methods of formatting and outputting data offered by Python.
  • CO3 - Demonstrate Boolean values to compare different values and control the execution paths.
  • CO4 - Demonstrate defining and using of functions.
  • CO5 - Explain Python modules.
  • CO6 - Explain the fundamentals of OOP (Object Oriented Programming) and the way they are adopted in Python

CBAS 364 IoT Foundation: Connecting Things

The course explores how nearly every object can be connected to the Internet. From washing machines to an airplane’s jet engine, even organic items like crops and cows. Students learn the basis of this exciting and emerging field using hands-on activities to model securely connecting sensors to cloud services over IP networks and collecting data in an end-to-end IoT (Internet of Things) system. The course may help prepare students to attain the industry certification CompTIA SecOT+.

Topics

• • Microcomputers and Microcontrollers Security.
  • OT, IoT, and IIoT Network Security.

Objectives

• • CO1 - Create a solution that incorporates design thinking, prototyping, and troubleshooting.  
  • CO2 - Evaluate proposed solutions using critical thinking and problem-solving skills.  
  • CO3 - Apply an interdisciplinary understanding of IoT systems (electronics, networking, and programming).
  • CO4 - Apply teamwork skills to network security.  
  • CO5 - Analyze and Evaluate problems and solutions in a business context.  

CBAS 365 Big Data & Analytics Foundation

The course explores modern, real-time applications, IoT (Internet of Things) systems and the data they collect. Students learn how to collect, store, and visualize data obtained from IoT sensors and to use data analytics to gain insights from the intelligence produced. The course may help prepare students to attain the industry certification CompTIA Data+.

Topics

• • Data Security.
  • AI Security Automation.

Objectives

• • CO1 - Implement Python to create code that reads data from sensors and stores it in a SQL database. 
  • CO2 - Explain fundamental principles of Big Data platforms like Hadoop. 
  • CO3 - Visualize, clean, manipulate and integrate data sets. 
  • CO4 - Apply storytelling to present insights gained from extracted data.

CBAS 371 Cybersecurity Foundation

This course provides a wide overview of cybersecurity concepts and places an emphasis on mitigating specific security issues. Students apply what they learn through extensive hands-on lab activities. The course may help prepare students to attain the industry certification CompTIA Security+.

Topics

• • Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Authenticity, and Non-repudiation (CIAAN).

Objectives

• • CO1 - Evaluate risks and risk mitigation activities. 
  • CO2 - Differentiate infrastructure, application, information and operational security. 
  • CO3 - Apply security controls to maintain confidentiality, integrity and availability. 
  • CO4 - Evaluate appropriate technologies and products for given scenarios. 
  • CO5 - Evaluate available information to troubleshoot security events and incidents. 
  • CO6 - Analyze policies, laws and regulations related to cybersecurity  

CBAS 472 Cybersecurity Penetration Testing

This course covers the penetration testing and vulnerability assessment and management. Students learn skills necessary to determine the resiliency of a network against attacks. How to customize assessment frameworks to effectively collaborate on and report findings. And best practices to communicate recommended strategies to improve the overall state of IT security. The course may help prepare students to attain the industry certification CompTIA PenTest+.

Topics

• • Network Pentesting.
  • Wifi Pentesting.
  • IoT and IIoT - full echosystem Pentesting.
  • Web Application Pentesting.
  • Hardware Pentesting.
  • Non-technical Pentesting.

Objectives

• • CO1 - Analyze the knowledge and skills required to plan and scope an assessment. 
  • CO2 - Analyze legal and compliance requirements. 
  • CO3 - Execute a vulnerability scanning analysis 
  • CO4 - Analyze data, and effectively report and communicate results.  

CBAS 473 Cybersecurity Analyst

The course covers the behavioral analytics skills to identify and combat malware, and advanced persistent threats. Students learn to perform data analysis and interpret the results to identify vulnerabilities, threats and risks to an organization. Configure and use threat-detection tools. And to secure and protect applications and systems within an organization. The course may help prepare students to attain the industry certification CompTIA CySA+.

Topics

• • Governance, Rick, and Compliance.
  • Network analysis.
  • Memory analysis.
  • Malware analysis.

Objectives

• • CO1 - Analyze and interpret the results of available information to identify vulnerabilities, threats and risks to an organization. 
  • CO2 - Apply threat-detection tools to a network. 
  • CO3 - Implement technologies to secure and protect applications and systems within an organization.  

CBAS 475 Cybersecurity Operations

The course focuses on how to monitor, detect and respond to cybersecurity threats. Students learn cryptography, host-based security analysis, security monitoring, computer forensics, attack methods and incident reporting and handling. The course may help prepare students to attain the industry certification CompTIA SecurityX+.

Topics

• • Security Services.
  • Threat Hunting.
  • Incident Response.
  • Digital Forensics.
  • Malware Analysis.

Objectives

• • CO1 - Detect and respond to security incidents. 
  • CO2 - Apply incident handling critical thinking and problem-solving skills  
  • CO3 - Apply understanding of cybersecurity basic principles
  • CO4 - Apply network intrusion analysis
  • CO5 - Apply an appropriate incident response for a given scenario
  • CO6 - Apply data and event analysis  

CBAS 499 Capstone Project

The capstone project integrates and synthesizes competencies from across the degree program. Each project consists of a technical work proposal, the proposal’s implementation, and a post-implementation report that describes the student’s experience in developing and implementing the capstone project.

Objectives

• • CO1 - Plan, implement, administer, and support enterprise information security technologies and systems. 
  • CO2 - Analyze the security vulnerabilities of an organization’s information technology resources. 
  • CO3 - Plan and implement security measures and practices for an organization’s information technology resources. 
  • CO3 - Evaluate organization needs and use those needs to plan the implementation of information technology systems.