This is the first course in the Cybersecurity Foundations Certificate. The Cybersecurity Foundations certificate will introduce you to the core concepts and practices of the field of cybersecurity. The goal of this first course is to provide a foundation in cybersecurity by exploring critical topics in the field such as:
- The security mindset
- Identity and access management
- Cryptography, password cracking, and steganography
- Network attacks, securing a network, and intrusion detection
- Application security
- Using Linux
- Cloud security
- Privacy on the internet– ethical, legal, and technical issues
There will be lectures, hands-on labs, homework assignments, and tests.
Although this course can be taken as a stand-alone offering, it is also designed to integrate with (and be a companion to) the program Data Structures and Algorithms (12 credits, fall quarter). This class is taught fully online.
This is the first of four courses that comprise the Cybersecurity Foundations Certificate at Evergreen. Courses must be taken in sequential order.
4 - Introduction to Cybersecurity
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It is recommended that students have prior programming experience, especially Python, and some knowledge of basic Linux commands. Additional prerequisites apply to later courses in this certificate sequence.
Students can use outside programming experience to satisfy these prerequisites or take Computer Science Foundations (16 credits, Fall and Winter quarter). Please contact certificates@evergreen.edu with any questions about these prerequisites.
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This offering is connected to the Cybersecurity Foundations Certificate at Evergreen. For more information visit: https://www.evergreen.edu/academics/professional-continuing-education/cybersecurity-foundations
Computer science, IT, cybersecurity, systems engineering, digital forensics
Students can earn up to 4 upper division credits if they successfully complete the course.