Cybersecurity Undergraduate Credential Requirements: Foundations of Security Operations
Foundations of Security Operations
Cybersecurity Stackable Undergraduate Credential Requirements
The School of Professional Studies: Undergraduate, Online
The accelerated 7 week semester online Professional Studies undergraduate Foundations of Software Security offers a credential that requires 12 credits (4 courses) including:
Undergraduate Cybersecurity Stackable Credential Courses: 12 credits (4 courses).
Undergraduate Cybersecurity Credential students have the option to earn 30 credits (10 courses) required as part of the BS Global Cybersecurity by stacking the three Undergraduate Cybersecurity Credentials.
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Transfer Credits: Our generous transfer policy allows students to transfer up to 90 credits required for a Bachelor degree, or up to 45 credits required for an Associate level degree as well as 6 credits of related graduate study. Credits presented for transfer must be from an accredited institution and a final course grade of a C or higher is required for undergraduate and a B or higher on the graduate level. Discuss with your advisor.
Prior Learning Assessments: Receive college credit for learning acquired through life experience. By evaluating a portfolio, we determine whether your experience qualifies as college level learning. Pay for one credit and receive three credits per course successfully challenged. You may challenge up to fifteen courses.
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Transfer credit or credit by examination is acceptable in lieu of all Core Curriculum requirements except College Writing I (ENG-0160) and College Writing II (ENG-0170). These two courses are required of all students enrolled in the School of Professional Studies.
Foundations of Security Operations Cybersecurity Credential Courses (12 Credits)
GCC 0220: Security Organization
Prerequisites: None
Appropriate security must start with business needs, since the business defines what essential resources they can invest in that effort. This begins with policies but continues through standards and processes. None of these can be developed in isolation, however, nor can they remain stagnant since attacker techniques are continuing to evolve to counter controls in place. This is why threat intelligence and effective communication with staff and external stakeholders are both essential.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
GCC 0370: Offensive Security
Prerequisites: None
A common approach to identifying defensive strategies is to go on the offensive. The theory is, if a friendly entity identifies vulnerabilities, they can be remediated before an attacker can identify them. However some of these practices simply result in a false sense of security for organizations. Students will come away from this course with an understanding of what types of offensive security practices would be best for their organization.
Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)
GCC 0380: Defensive Security
Prerequisites: None
Offensive security can be helpful to identify vulnerabilities that need to be addressed, but you can't protect against everything. Organizations need to be vigiliant and have the necessary visibility to notice when attackers are attempting to compromise systems. This requires appropriate architectures that enable extensive logging and the ability to consumer and act on those logs. Again, this requires threat intelligence to know what is happening in the world with respect to threat groups and their activities, as well as an understanding of business requirements to identify attempts to compromise critical information assets.
Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)
GCC 0450: Essentials of Incident Response
Prerequisites: None
Course description coming soon.
Offered fall semester. (3 Credits)
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