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Information Technology

Information Security

Degree

 
 

Associate in Applied Science Degree in Information Security 

Required Courses Credits
Certificate of Completion: Information Security Technology 27
Restricted Electives: 12
General Education Requirements: 25-27
Total Credits for AAS Degree 64 - 66

Note: A course cannot be used to satisfy both Required Courses and Restricted Electives area for the AAS degree.

Restrictive Electives: Credits 12

Students should select twelve (12) credits from the list below of which 6 credits must be ITS prefix courses.

Restrictive Electives Credits
CIS162AB+ C++:Level I OR 3
CIS162AD + C#: Level I OR 3
CIS163AA + Java Programming: Level I 3
CIS238US+ UNIX Security 3
CIS271DL+ Linux Security 3
CNT160+ Cisco Switching Basics and Intermediate Routing 3
CNT170+ Cisco Wide Area Networks (WAN) Technologies 3
CNT182+ Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Configuration 4
CNT185+ Cisco Network Security 4
CNT186+ Fundamentals of Wireless LANs 4
ITS100 Information Security Awareness 2
ITS150+ Building Trusted Networks in the Enterprise 3
ITS160+ Managing Trusted Networks in the Enterprise 3
ITS170 Information Security Policy Development 1
ITS171 Information Security Risk Management 1
ITS172 Viruses and Other Malicious Software 1
ITS230+ Deploying Snort Intrusion Detection System (IDS) 1
ITS231+ Router Hardening 1
ITS232+ Layer 2 Attacks and Defenses 3
ITS233+ Wireless Network Security 3
ITS290+ Computer Security Incident Response 3
ITS291+ Computer Forensics Foundations 4
ITS292+ Advanced Computer Forensics 4
ITS295AA+ Special Topics in Information Security 1
ITS295AB+ Special Topics in Information Security 2
ITS295AC+ Special Topics in Information Security 3
ITS298AA Special Projects 1
ITS298AB Special Projects 2
ITS298AC Special Projects 3
MST152+ Microsoft Windows Server 4
MST259+ Designing Windows Network Security 3