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2025-2026 Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Catalog

CIA 107 - Cybersecurity Principles II


Credit Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisites: CIA 103  
Session Cycle: WI

The intent of Cybersecurity Principles II is to provide students with basic security design fundamentals that help create systems that are worthy of being trusted, to provide students with a basic understanding of the components in an information technology system and their roles in system operation, and to provide students with a basic ability to understand where and how cryptography is used.

Notes:  

Business Division

Theory Hours: 45

Learning Outcomes:  

  1. Define the principles of cybersecurity.
  2. Describe the hardware components of modern computing environments and their individual functions.  
  3. Describe the basic security implications of modern computing environments.
  4. Identify the elements of a cryptographic system.
  5. Describe which cryptographic protocols, tools and techniques are appropriate for a given situation.