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CITY’s cybersecurity certification & training program is designed to expose, train, and properly prepare youth, veterans, and others for an exciting career in cybersecurity. Students will be required to complete intense training courses inclusive of cybersecurity training with hands-on labs, cyber simulation exercises, and certification exams. Students will have the option to choose a cybersecurity specialty that aligns with their cybersecurity career interests. The three cybersecurity career specialties offered to students are offensive security, defensive security, and security engineering. After completing cybersecurity training and certification requirements, students will apply their new cybersecurity knowledge and skills in a CyberSkills simulation virtual environment. To ensure continuous success, students will work in teams for peer encouragement and with a cybersecurity mentor.
CYBERSECURITY SPECIALTIES
Offensive Security
CompTIA PenTest+
As organizations scramble to protect themselves and their customers against privacy or security breaches, the ability to conduct penetration testing is an emerging skill set that is becoming ever more valuable to organizations seeking protection, and ever more lucrative for those who possess these skills. The offensive cybersecurity course will introduce students to general concepts and methodologies related to pen testing, and you will work your way through a simulated pen test for a fictitious company.
Students seeking to specialize in offensive security will develop skills to perform ethical hacking campaigns for organizations. These campaigns assist organizations in identifying weaknesses in their cybersecurity defense and position organizations to correct these weaknesses before an unethical hacker exploits the weaknesses.
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Offensive Security Professional’s Average National Salary: $103,000
Defensive Security
The CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)
The defensive cybersecurity course has been created for students interested in protecting information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation preserved. This course focuses on the knowledge, ability, and skills necessary to defend those information systems in a cybersecurity context, including protection, detection, analysis, investigation, and response processes. In addition, the course ensures that all members of an IT team—everyone from help desk staff to the Chief Information Officer—understand their role in these security processes.
Students interested in pursuing a defensive security specialization will develop skills to investigate and resolve cybersecurity incidents ranging from ransomware outbreaks to discovering hackers in an organization’s network.
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Defensive Security Professional’s Average National Salary: $98,350
Security Engineering
CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+)
The Security Engineering course will expand students’ knowledge of information security to apply more advanced principles. Students will apply critical thinking and judgment across a broad spectrum of security disciplines to propose and implement sustainable security solutions that map to organizational strategies; translate business needs into security requirements; support IT governance and risk management; architect security for hosts, networks, and software; respond to security incidents; and more.
Students pursuing a specialization in Security Engineering will develop skills related to security enterprise architecture, deploying security technologies to systems, and risk analysis. Security Engineers assist organizations with identifying and implementing cybersecurity technologies to protect against cybersecurity threats.
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Security Engineering Professional’s Average National Salary: $109,020