Foundations of Cybersecurity

Unit(s): Unit 1 and 2 Career and Employment, Ethics/Social/Legal Issues

Unit 3 and 4 Cybersecurity Concepts,  Threats/vulnerabilities/cyber terrorism

Unit(s): Cont. Unit 4 Threat and Vulnerabilities

Unit 5 Network and System Security

Unit(s):  Unit 5 

Network and System  Security

Unit(s):  Unit 6 Application Security

Unit(s):  Cont Unit 6 Applications Security

Unit 7 Forensics

• Unit I IT/Cyber Careers

• Skills, Education and certifications

• Resume, Portfolio 

• 1-3 weeks

• Unit 2 Ethics, Social and Legal

• 7 types of Hackers

• Ethics of technologies

• Legal Rules,Laws and regulation for IT/Social Media/etc..

• Fraud, abuse, Cyberbullying 

• Unit 3  and 4 Concepts and definition of Cybersecurity

• CIA triad

• Risk management, assessment of vulnerability and threats

• warning or  alerts of compromised system

• Commonly used tools historically/current

• Cyber Defense

• IoT- Internet of Things

• Unit 4 and 5     Cyber Terrorism, Counter Terrorism

• Malicious software, Trojans, Viruses, Worms and Ransomware, DDoS attacks, bots, botnets, zombies

• Delivery techniques malicious software

• Emerging threats

• Social engineering, email, spoofing, backdoor dumpster diving

• Protecting infrastructure, water, power grids,

• Anti-virus, System security updates

• Penetration testing

• Unit 5 Network and System Security

• Network devices and security of connected devices

• Network protections firewalls, Analyzing incoming and outgoing data traffic. common ports ID’s and purpose. Common protocols suites

• Encryption, Assessment tools, open source tools.

• Cyber - Attack signatures

• Sandboxing, Virtual Machines. 

• Large scale management tools Scripting, imaging Group policies 

VPN,remote software distribution

• Unit 6 Application security

• Password policies and vulnerabilities

• Active directory/User groups and file right permissions

• Detecting  and removing malicious software ie trojan, viruses, malware etc…

• Infrastructure Design and protection

• Bring your own device safety and concerns

• WiFi access and separation of networks

• Auditing validating software version, history and license

• Hosted or cloud based services

• Continuity of IT/services change management

• Unit 6 and 7 Security and Forensics

• Disaster recovery point/time objective RPO/RTO

• Data recovery backup

• Forensics certifications CCE/CHFI/CFCE

• Define Cybercrimes and digital investigations

• Forensics toolkits and password recovery tool kit

• Registry files, analyze and report Hard Disk recovery/image.

• investigation and process of digital forensics  evidence.

Imbedded Activities:

Unit 1 - Research and presentation of careers IT/Cyber.

Top Cyber Certs.

Unit 2 - Social ethics and Legal -Types of hackers.

Hat categories.

Current event in the news recent Cyber breaches.

Geo-political state sponsored cyber threats.

Imbedded Activities:

https://mva.microsoft.com/

https://www.cybrary.it/

Imbedded Activities:

https://mva.microsoft.com/

OS hardening 

https://www.cybrary.it/

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/

Imbedded Activities:

https://mva.microsoft.com/

https://www.cybrary.it/

www.netacad.com

Imbedded Activities:

https://mva.microsoft.com/

https://www.cybrary.it/

https://public.cyber.mil/training/cyber-awareness-challenge-2019/

Imbedded Activities:

 www.accessdata.com

 www.ncfta .net

Cycle 1: 

-Professionalism

-Ethics

127.15(1)(A)

127.15(1)(E)

127.15(1)(F)

127.15(1)(G)

127.15(1)(H)

127.15(1)(I)

127.15(1)(K)

127.15(1)(L)

127.15(1)(M)

Cycle 2: 

-Teamwork

-Problem Solving

127.15(1)(B)

127.15(1)(I)

Cycle 3:

-Self Management Skill

-Conflict Resolution

-Leadership

127.15(1)(B)

127.15(1)(D)

127.15(1)(E)

127.15(1)(F)

127.15(1)(G)

127.15(1)(H)

127.15(1)(I)

127.15(1)(J)

127.15(1)(M)

Cycle 4:

Communication Skills

127.15(1)(C)