Continuing Education

CCTM648 - Security Operations and Investigations

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Course Overview

Security operations and investigation course will help you gain skills that will improve your cybersecurity incident detection and response, vulnerability management, change management, system hardening, Logging and Monitoring. Maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your security systems through policies, standards, and guidelines that support business functions. With the skills gained in this course, you will be able to implement strategies to enhance the information security of your organization. Use security operations to protect the information critical to your business. Discover system hardening, configuration management, firewalls, intrusion detection, and more. Direct and respond to security incidents efficiently through security incident investigation. This course will include multiple labs where you will be built Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), running and configuring Zeek, run a vulnerability scan, configuring Pfsense Firewall, configuring OpenVPN, and network and memory forensics. These labs will help you understand your basics of security operations and investigations.

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Delivery Methods

  • Face to Face: Where: In-person meetings. When: Course is scheduled at a specific time for students to attend. Face-to-face instruction at all class meetings. Location may be on campus or at a worksite.
  • Blended: Where: Mixture of in-person & online components. When: Course is scheduled at a specific time for students to attend. Combination of face-to-face and online components at specific times. Some online components may be accessed online anytime.
  • Hyflex: Where: Choice to attend in-person or online meetings. When: Course is scheduled at a specific time for students to attend. For each class, students choose to attend in-person with the instructor or online at a specific time.
  • Remote Live Delivery: Where: Online with instructor. When: Course is scheduled at a specific time for students to attend. Instruction is delivered at set times online. Students do not come to campus.
  • Remote On-Demand Delivery: Where: Online anytime. When: No set class meetings. Coursework is accessed on-demand and online. While there are no set class meetings, there may be set due dates and deadlines for some activities. Students may interact with peers through virtual tools.
  • Remote Independent: Where: Online anytime. When: No set class meetings. Coursework is accessed on-demand and online, with no instructor support. While students choose when to do coursework, there may be set due dates and deadlines. 
  • Work Placement: Where: In-person meetings. When: Work is scheduled at a specific time for students to attend. Onsite work integrated learning. Location at a worksite.
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