This certificate focuses on assessing, mitigating, and managing security risks in IT infrastructures. Any undergraduate student, regardless of major, may enroll in the Certificate in Infrastructure Security. This Certificate prepares the adult learner to seek entry-level career positions such as: Network Security Analyst, Network Security Manager, Network Security Assessor, and Network Security Designer. Program graduates will know how to design secure networks, develop risk mitigation plans, perform intrusion detection, and design secure networks. While enrolled in this certificate, the student will: Appraise the impact of operating system and network security on Information Technology Management and on global ecommerce. Establish the need for a reference model; and examine the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) and the Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Packet (TCP/IP) reference models. Discuss the technical risks, performance factors and security issues related to operating system and network security on ecommerce, information technology management, and on global commerce. Examine the principles that enable Viruses, Worms, and Trojan horses to propagate and proliferate throughout the system. Differentiate between active and passive Intrusion Detection; and examine the scope and procedures for implementing border and firewall security. Appraise the process for assessing network and application security; and analyze the corresponding risk mitigation strategies and techniques. Assess the configuration, functionality, and risks of filtering; and evaluate security systems such as firewalls, border routers, switches, and ids sensors.
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