Cybersecurity Certificate   

This course provides an essential overview of the legal and regulatory environment prospective cybersecurity professionals will encounter when entering the cybersecurity field. Additionally, we provide an understanding of U.S. and international cybersecurity law, civil and criminal procedures related to cybercrime, case law, and a broad overview of cybersecurity policies and regulations.

Credit: Completion of this course earns 1 undergraduate credit from Radford University. Applicability of the undergraduate credit to a degree program may vary.

Prerequisite: None.

This course provides an overview of the fundamentals of cybersecurity and its pre-requisites. It starts with a coverage of the pre-requisites: How to use Linux from the command line, basics concepts of networking, and mathematics required to understand cryptography.

Credit: Completion of this course earns 3 undergraduate credits from Radford University. Applicability of the undergraduate credit to a degree program may vary.

Prerequisite: In order to add this course, you must have successfully completed:
•    CBIT100 - Ethics and Laws in Cybersecurity

This course provides the principles and practices of implementing computer database security, typically utilizing Oracle and standard SQL in modern businesses and industries; to include database auditing, principles, and reliability.

Credit: Completion of this course earns 3 undergraduate credits from Radford University. Applicability of the undergraduate credit to a degree program may vary.

Prerequisites: In order to add this course, you must have successfully completed:
•    CBIT 100 - Ethics and Laws in Cybersecurity
•    CBIT 101 - Foundations of Cybersecurity

This course introduces learners to network security. You will learn about network fundamentals, network attacks and vulnerabilities, and current defenses. Topics covered include network protocols, addressing, routing, small network configuration, network vulnerability, threats, attacks, defending the networks, mitigating network attacks, and cryptography.

This course imparts a broad understanding of the underpinnings of small network configuration, security techniques, security best practices, and security failures. You will also utilize Wireshark to capture data traffic and analyze that traffic to understand better how data circumnavigates the web and your internal networks.

Credit: Completion of this course earns 3 undergraduate credits from Radford University. Applicability of the undergraduate credit to a degree program may vary.

Prerequisite: In order to add this course, you must have successfully completed:
•    CBIT 100 - Ethics and Laws in Cybersecurity
•    CBIT 101 - Foundations of Cybersecurity
•    CBIT 240 - Data and Web Security

This course introduces the principles and techniques associated with the cybersecurity practice known as penetration testing and incident handling. The course covers planning, reconnaissance, scanning, exploitation, post-exploitation, and result reporting. The learner discovers how system vulnerabilities can be exploited and learn to avoid such problems by using their garnered knowledge of these vulnerabilities and exploits to their benefit.

Credit: Completion of this course earns 4 undergraduate credits from Radford University. Applicability of the undergraduate credit to a degree program may vary.

Prerequisites: In order to add this course, you must have successfully completed:
•    CBIT 100 - Ethics and Laws in Cybersecurity
•    CBIT 101 - Foundations of Cybersecurity
•    CBIT 240 - Data and Web Security
•    CBIT 250 - Network Security

This course will provide an overview of the current cyber defense posture and policies in a national security framework.  Learners will study security governance frameworks, models, and tools that we utilize to help defend networks and their internal systems in most organizations worldwide, with a focus on government entities. You will study the cyber threat environment; laws and policies that govern cybersecurity; current and historical structure, functions, and capabilities of private and governmental agencies comprising the cyber community; and future trends that affect national security.

Credit: Completion of this course earns 4 undergraduate credits from Radford University. Applicability of the undergraduate credit to a degree program may vary.

Prerequisites: In order to add this course, you must have successfully completed:
•    CBIT 100 - Ethics and Laws in Cybersecurity
•    CBIT 101 - Foundations of Cybersecurity
•    CBIT 240 - Data and Web Security
•    CBIT 250 - Network Security
•    CBIT 475 - Penetration Testing and Incident Handling