This course introduces you to basic English writing skills and research methods, including APA-style writing, citing sources, determining when a website is credible, and using effective business communication.

This course provides a comprehensive foundation in business principles, equipping you with essential knowledge and skills applicable across various business environments. You’ll develop a strong understanding of key business concepts by exploring how successful entrepreneurs navigate global competition and evolving market dynamics.

This course deals with organizational behavior, allowing you to experience the basic facets of organizational theory and define the skills required to understand and apply the theory to real-world environments. Elements of the course are organizational structure, effective communication, team building, ethics, and project management, as seen through the organizational lens.

While cyberspace has increased human communication, connectivity, creativity, and capacity, it has also increased crime exponentially in the last decade. This crime aspect is exploited by everyone from hackers in high school to international terrorists. IT criminals threaten businesses, governmental agencies, militaries, and organizations of every kind. This course will survey the spectrum of psychological attributes that make up the profile of IT criminals.

This course encompasses an extensive research project about cross-cultural differences in leadership conducted by a group of researchers in 62 countries. It lays a foundation for understanding the process of leadership. The study examines the roles, functions, and impact of global leadership concepts, along with team exercises that simulate the speed at which leaders must act. Research and views into how most cultures respond to this management area are also provided.

This course evaluates network and IT security issues, designing and implementing successful security policies and firewall strategies, exposing system and network vulnerabilities, and defending against associated threats. Topics include network protocols, network attacks, intrusion detection systems, packet filtering, proxy servers, Bastion hosts and honey pots, hardening routers, hardening security measures, email security, virtual private networks, and creating fault tolerance. 

This course focuses on configuring a secure Linux network using the command line and graphical utilities. Emphasis is placed on file-sharing technologies such as the Network File System, NetWare’s NCP file sharing, and File Transfer Protocols. Additional topics include securing data, user security, file security, and network intrusion detection. You will take on the role of a problem solver and apply the concepts to situations that occur in real-world environments.

This course focuses on how perimeter defenses work, how intruders escalate privileges, and methods of securing IT systems. Additional topics include intrusion detection, policy creation, social engineering, DoS attacks, buffer overflows, and virus creation.

This course focuses on the fundamentals of fortifying network defenses by discovering methods of developing a secure baseline. You will learn how to safeguard enterprise IT architecture from advanced cyber-attacks through segmentation and isolation techniques that reduce the effectiveness of persistent threats.

This course provides comprehensive knowledge of cloud services and their characteristics, benefits, applications, and service models. It covers planning, designing, and implementing cloud security controls and delves into various cloud security standards, countermeasures, and best practices. This cloud security course also highlights the business aspects of cloud security, such as cloud uptime, uptime guarantee, availability, fault tolerance, failover policy, and how cloud security strengthens the business case for cloud adoption.

This course shows you how to manage risk in cloud environments. It covers data protection, types of cloud-based service models, the right procedure for deploying every model, and dimensions of cloud security. You will learn to manage, configure, and implement cloud security services across most platforms. By the end of this course, you will be equipped with cloud security skills such as password management, role management, encryption, auditing, application control, access control, and centralized security monitoring.

This application security course encompasses security activities in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). The course focuses on selecting and implementing the right security strategies, guidelines, and practices that are widely accepted and applicable in most cloud environments used today.

The Capstone is a summative experience, allowing you to demonstrate all program outcomes by drawing on the knowledge and skills gained throughout the program. You can enroll in the Capstone after successfully completing all core degree requirements, but it must be within six semester credit hours of graduation. You must attain a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 and have the Registrar’s approval to undertake the Capstone.