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Advanced Cyber-Security Practitioner

Program Year (2021-2022)

About the Program

The Associate of Science Degree in Advanced Cyber-Security Practictioner will provide our community with a workforce of highly skilled digital security professionals well versed in industry standards and best practices. This program is designed to prepare students for employment in a cybersecurity related field and successfully pass globally recognized industry certifications. Upon completion of this program students will have the skills required for an entry level career as a cyber-security practitioner.


Program Requirements

For current program requirements -> 2023-2024

Program Code: 40710.00AS

Type: Career

General Education: Butte Local

Student Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this program, the student will be able to:

  • Understand, implement, and analyze access control, those policies, standards, and procedures that define who users are, what they can do, which resources they can access, and what operations they can perform on a system.

  • Use industry best practices, administer, maintain, and analyze a secure network environment through identification of information assets, and documentation of policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines that ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability.

  • Explain security analysis planning and scoping, conduct information gathering and vulnerability identification, and create reports and communicate results of security tests.

  • Develop and analyze risk, response, and recovery through the review, analysis and implementation processes essential to the identification, measurement and control of loss associated with uncertain events.

  • Analyze and protect systems from malicious code and use countermeasures and prevention techniques for dealing with viruses, worms, logic bombs, Trojan horses and other related forms of intentionally created deviant code.

  • Conceptualize, engineer, integrate and implement secure solutions in complex enterprise environments to build resilient networks.

  • Understand comprehensive data communications and analysis including: The network structure, transmission methods and techniques, transport formats and security measures used to operate both private and public communication networks.

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Required courses:
35 Units
Required Core:
Complete one track
CCNA track
MSCA track

Contacts

Luke Sathrum, Chair
(530) 895-2219

Department Office: AHPS 251
(530) 895-2531

Counseling and Advising:
(530) 895-2378

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