Cybersecurity Skills Certificate

The Cybersecurity Skills Certificate is designed to prepare students to take industry recognized certification exams, including: CompTIASecurity+ , EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and CCNA Cyber Ops. By developing the knowledge and skills, and obtaining the industry recognized credentials,  students will be competitive for employment in the cybersecurity field.  

It is anticipated that an average of 10-15 students will complete this certificate of achievement annually.

The Cybersecurity Skills Certificate is designed to prepare students to take industry recognized certification exams, including: CompTIASecurity+ , EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and CCNA Cyber Ops. By developing the knowledge and skills, and obtaining the industry recognized credentials,  students will be competitive for employment in the cybersecurity field.  

Upon successful completion of the program, students will demonstrate an ability to:

●    Install and configure basic routing and switching elements.

●    Collect and analyze data to uncover attacks and malware

●    Learn attacks, security policy, encryption, access control, PKI, authentication, and cryptography.

●    Comprehend concepts of system vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, exploits, and countermeasures

The Cybersecurity Skills Certificate Certificate is part of the work CIS faculty engaged in to “re-package” CIS Degree and Certificates so they align more clearly with employment opportunities in the field.  This certificate fits with the MPC mission, curriculum and master planning  because it prepares students to earn Security+ Certification and compete for career opportunities in Networking and Security.    

Course       Title                                                                          Units             Sequence

CSIS 76A      Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) 1          3                Semester 1

CSIS 86        Network Security Fundamentals/Security+ Prep   3                Semester 1

CSIS 87        Computer Forensics                                                 3                 Semester 2

CSIS 88        Security Practices: Penetration Testing                  3                 Semester 2

                     and Discovery

CSIS 89        CCNA Cyber Operations (Cyber Ops)                     3                 Semester 2

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This COA is the result of a program restructure faculty undertook to align program COA"s more closely with employer job postings. No new classes have been created. Spoke with Gerlinde Brady, CTE Dean at Cabrillo College. No impact is expected on neighboring colleges in the Monterey/Santa Cruz sub-region.