With the rapid increase of cyber threats and attacks it is essential that companies protect their network infrastructure from and avoid becoming the next victim of a cyber-attack. The Associate of Science degree in Cyber Security provides students with a solid foundation of the skills needed to become a cyber security professional. Students in this program gain an understanding of how to identify potential cyber threats and prevent both internal and external attacks. This exciting program gives students the tools and the information for potential employment in the rapidly evolving Cyber Security field.

The goal of this Associate Degree program is to help students develop the technical skills needed for pursuing a successful career as a Cyber Security professional. This program covers fundamental skill development in both Information Technology (IT) and Cyber Security related areas, while also giving students the opportunity to apply their knowledge in a virtual learning environment.

This program also provides students with the opportunity to effectively use information resources, conduct intellectual research, and communicate scientific knowledge based on today’s technology requirements.

The Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system is used by Federal statistical agencies to classify workers into occupational categories for the purpose of collecting, calculating, or disseminating data. The Cyber Security Associate of Science Degree Program offered at Laurus College can help prepare graduates for a variety of careers that include, but are not limited to the list of careers that may be listed under the following SOC codes (for more information on a particular SOC code, visit www.onetonline.org).

●       Discuss the fundamentals of cybersecurity, threats to business continuity, disaster recovery, legal, ethical predicaments, and professional issues relative to security whether it be related to data, information, application, or networks.

●       Implement common standards, procedures, and applications used to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and information systems.

●       Develop contingency operations that include administrative planning processes for incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning within information security and implement a comprehensive security plan, including risk analysis, legal, regulatory, physical security, data, and personnel threats.

●       Explain and utilize digital forensic techniques, procedures, and software tools.

●       Implement appropriate procedures and technologies to enforce administrative policies within a corporate environment with sensitivity to the goals and constraints of an organization.

●       Implement a hardware and software configuration responsive to an identified scenario while describing how the historical development of hardware and operating system computing platforms produced the computing systems we have today and diagram the main parts of a computer, including interconnections.

●       Explain and utilize network standards, protocols, components, transmission media, hardware, protocol analyzer, and cybersecurity tools and requirements of distributed computing setting while contrasting various networking topologies in terms of robustness, expandability, and throughput used within an enterprise.

●       Perform database administration tasks such as creating and managing database users, roles, and privileges, backup, and restoring database objects to ensure organizational efficiency, continuity, and information security.

●       Develop critical thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving skills.

●       Use the Library/Resource Center to complete course assignments that require book, periodical, journal, and/or Internet research.

We offer Associate and Bachelor of Science Degrees. The courses at Laurus College are taught online by experienced professionals from the field, and our college is known for its friendly learning environment and supportive staff and instructors who will feel like family.

You can even connect with faculty, classmates, and staff in person by visiting one of our locations: Atascadero, Chula Vista, Las Vegas, Oxnard, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Maria.