Information Systems Security

Overview

Course Details

Gain an advanced understanding of secure network design and the development of security policies and programs with the Information Systems Security Postgrad. Cert. at the American Public University.

In your online information systems security classes, you’ll learn the guiding principles of information systems security and enhance your knowledge of cryptography. You’ll also study business continuity planning and other skills to protect organizational systems from a growing number of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.

This program is ideal if you want to acquire more information systems security knowledge without committing to a degree program.

What You Will Do

• Develop your knowledge of the differences between various physical and logical network structures and evaluate various types of security architecture and design models
• Learn about the seven-layer Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) networking model and how it relates to common protocol stacks and become familiar with data packet components (such as a header, body, and cyclical redundancy check [CRC])
• Understand network security principles and cellular network architecture
• Study how to secure current and next-generation telecommunications networks and the principles of intrusion detection and intrusion prevention
• Become familiar with the different types of cryptographic algorithm