Intro to IT Security: CompTIA Security+

Are you an aspiring security administrator, network security specialist, or security consultant? This course is designed to equip students with the essential knowledge and skills needed to succeed in this rapidly growing field and covers a comprehensive range of security related topics, including network security, compliance and operational security, threats and vulnerabilities, application, data and host security, access control and identity management, and cryptography. This course aligns with the objectives for the CompTIA Security+ certification exam.

Course Information

This course is designed to equip students with the essential knowledge and skills needed to succeed in this rapidly growing field and covers a comprehensive range of security related topics, including network security, compliance and operational security, threats and vulnerabilities, application, data and host security, access control and identity management, and cryptography. This course aligns with the objectives for the CompTIA Security+ certification exam which can lead to job opportunities as a security administrator, network security specialist, security consultant and more.

• Location: Main Campus, Hybrid
• Duration: 5 Weeks, Evenings
• Cost: $700.00
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Instructor:

Joe Mayes has more than 30 years of IT and cybersecurity experience, both as an engineer and an instructor. He has created courses for the US Federal government, as a tenured faculty member at the college level, and as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Joe Has been a certified Cisco instructor since 1998, and a Cisco Learning Partner instructor since 2008. Joe has also been a certified Microsoft MCSE and MCT. Joe has served in various IT and cybersecurity positions as a Command Sergeant Major in both IT and cybersecurity leadership positions, as a consultant for IT and cybersecurity for multiple electrical utilities, and as a cybersecurity researcher for the Software Engineering Institute at CMU, working on classified and unclassified projects for the US Department of Defense and DHS, and on projects for foreign governments. Joe holds a Bachelor’s degree from Western Washington University in communication technologies, and a Master’s degree in media from the University of Washington. He holds multiple Cisco certifications, and a CISSP.