Computer & Networking Tech (CNG)

Introduces network fundamentals using the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model and TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) suite, fundamentals of Ethernet, IP addressing, and building simple LANs (Local Area Networks).

Introduces Local Area Networking. Focuses on discussions and demonstrations of planning, installing, and supporting networks.

Covers the basic elements of the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol, the basic technologies that implement the Internet and computer networking. In addition to TCP and IP the course covers networking media, link layer, network layer, and transport layer protocols. Also included are routing, broadcast, multicast, and network address translation. IP version 4 and IP version 6 are both covered.

Prepares students for the CompTIA A+ certification examination. PC hardware and operating system installation, configuration and troubleshooting are practiced and reviewed using A+ techniques.

Provides students with an in-depth look at personal computer hardware, introduces networking concepts, and covers operational procedures and troubleshooting, all of which are necessary for a successful entry-level computer service technician position. Provides extensive hands-on work with computer systems, PC setup and configuration, and basic maintenance and troubleshooting. This course helps prepare you for the first CompTIA A+ Exam.

Provides students with an in-depth look at desktop and mobile Operating System support, maintenance, and troubleshooting, and an overview of security concepts, and interpersonal skills, all of which are necessary for a successful entry-level computer service technician position. Provides extensive hands-on work with current operating systems, including using common GUI and command line tools, registry editing, system backup and recovery, and advanced troubleshooting. This course helps prepare you for the second CompTIA A+ Exam.

Provides students with the knowledge necessary to understand, identify and perform necessary tasks involved in supporting a network. Covers the vendor-independent networking skills and concepts that affect all aspects of networking, such as installing and configuring the TCP/IP. This course also prepares students for the Networking II: Network + course.

Continues to provide students with the knowledge necessary to implement and support a network. Focuses on the vendor-independent networking skills and concepts that affect all aspects of networking. The Networking I and II: Network + courses prepare students for the Network + certification.

Provides skills and knowledge required to survey key issues associated with protecting information assets, determine the levels of protection and response to security incidents, and design a consistent, reasonable information security system, with appropriate intrusion detection and reporting features. Students learn to inspect and protect information assets, detect and react to threats to information assets, and examine pre- and post-incident procedures, and technical and managerial responses. Students learn about information security planning and staffing functions.

Delivers a comprehensive overview of network security, including general security concepts. Communication Security is studied, including remote access, e-mail, the Web, directory and file transfer, and wireless data. Common network attacks are introduced. Cryptography basics are incorporated, and operational/organizational security is discussed as it relates to physical security, disaster recovery, and business continuity. Computer forensics is introduced.

Teaches students the basics of network firewall security. It covers basic installation techniques, discusses how to make an intelligent choice of firewall technology, and presents basic firewall troubleshooting.

Presents methods to identify technology and communication infrastructure vulnerabilities and appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate failure risks for an organization. The course will take an enterprise-wide approach to developing a disaster recovery plan.

Introduces fundamental content on cloud computing including system analysis, requirements, configuration, deployment, and testing. This course includes information on management, business continuity, security, maintenance, updating, and troubleshooting as related to cloud computing.

Covers the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform computer networking job roles. This course provides preparation for the Network+ industry certification exam.

Install a Linux operating system (OS). Configure and manage OS using command line interface (CLI) and text editor. Topics include installation and configuration of updates, services, file system, users and groups, file and folder permissions, networking, and remote access.

Provides students with the knowledge and skills required to configure, administer and secure data, users and services in a UNIX or Linux server environment. Emphasis will be on command-line interface (CLI). Topics will also include system monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting and interoperability with Windows servers and clients.

Provides students with the knowledge and skills to configure Active Directory Domain Services in a distributed environment, implement Group Policies, perform backup and restore, and monitor and troubleshoot Active Directory related issues.

Provides students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to install, configure and safely administer a Microsoft Windows Server. This class prepares the student for current industry certification.

Instructs students in Windows automation using command line or Powershell. Student will build on previous server environment knowledge to learn command line utility and/or Powershell cmdlets, and develop scripting skills for automating administrative tasks in a Windows environment.

Provides the student with the Microsoft official curriculum from the Microsoft Regional Academy. Offers detailed instruction on the foundation concepts and technologies of wireless data networking. Upon completion of this course, students are prepared to take the Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNP) Certification Exam.

Build and administer a hypervisor environment. Includes building of virtual machine (VM) infrastructure and skills such as patching, backing up and securing of both hypervisor and virtual machines.

Teaches students to configure, manage, and backup data using current information storage technologies.

Installs, configures and manages a cloud environment. Builds on knowledge of hypervisor and virtual machine environments.

Introduces concepts of cloud architecture, cloud security, and the law as it pertains to cloud deployment. Focuses on the mechanics of security in the cloud service models: Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS).

Prepares the student for virus eradication. Focuses on how viruses work, how they are designed and how viruses are written. Emphasizes virus eradication and cleaning.

Presents students with an introduction to vulnerability assessment. Vulnerability assessment skills are necessary to understand how companies address vulnerabilities in the business environment. Students gain a better understanding of how information technology security integrates into the corporate world and how a balance must be achieved between security and functionality.

Covers the evaluation of a system's security and giving of recommendations that make the system more secure. The purpose is to allow future IT professionals to move into the cybersecurity field. This course is designed to prepare students to pass the CompTIA CySA+ certification system.

Exposes the student to the field of digital computer forensics and investigation. This class provides the student with methods to properly conduct a digital forensics investigation including a discussion of ethics. Topics covered include fundamental concepts, history of computer forensics, file structures, data recovery techniques, computer forensic tools and analyses.

This course challenges students to combine the skills learned in previous coursework (or work experience) and apply them in whole to a mock business IT environment. Students will work in their own virtualized server environment, complete with servers, routers, firewalls, VPN, IDS/IPS, wireless and other current technologies to develop a security policy and framework using risk analysis and risk management techniques.

Meets the requirements of the first course in the Cisco Certified Network Associate, CCNA curriculum; introducing the architecture, structure, functions, components, and models of the Internet and other computer networks. The principles and structure of Internet Protocol - (IP) addressing and the fundamentals of Ethernet concepts, media, and operations are introduced to provide a foundation for the curriculum.

Meets the requirements of the second course in the Cisco Certified Network Associate - CCNA curriculum focusing on switching technologies and router configurations and operations that support small-to-medium business networks, including wireless local area networks (WLANs) and security concepts.

Explores the architecture, components, operations, and security to scale for large, complex networks, including wide area network (WAN) technologies. This course is the final course in the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) curriculum. The course emphasizes network security concepts and introduces network virtualization and automation.

Provides core and advanced security concepts & skills for Cisco networks.

To be determined by the individual instructor. A Course Description will be developed for each course and documented within the course syllabus. Refer to the SFCC Style Guide for Course Description, Required Course Learning Outcome, and Topical Outline guidelines.

​Meets the requirements of the first course in the Cisco Certified Network Associate, CCNA curriculum; introducing the architecture, structure, functions, components, and models of the Internet and other computer networks. The principles and structure of Internet Protocol - (IP) addressing and the fundamentals of ethernet concepts, media, and operations are introduced to provide a foundation for the curriculum.​

​Meets the requirements of the second course in the Cisco Certified Network Associate - CCNA curriculum focusing on switching technologies and router configurations and operations that support small-to-medium business networks, including wireless local area networks (WLANs) and security concepts.​

​Explores the architecture, components, operations, and security to scale for large, complex networks, including wide area network (WAN) technologies. This course is the final course in the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) curriculum. The course emphasizes network security concepts and introduces network virtualization and automation.

Introduces the fundamentals of cybersecurity including a broad survey of cybersecurity concepts, tools, technologies, and best practices.

Covers ethical and legal issues that arise in relation to employment in the public and private sectors. The main focus of the course will be the ethical and legal standards governing information technology. This course provides a framework for making ethical decisions.

Provides a methodology for analyzing networks by examining the network at its infrastructure, network, and application layers. The course explores how networks transfer data, how network protocols enable communication, and how the lower-level network layers support the upper layers.

Covers business continuity and disaster recovery principles including business impact analysis, assessment of risk, development of policies and procedures, and implementation of a plan. The course also covers securing, recovering, and restoring the organization's critical data in the aftermath of a disaster.

Covers concepts of Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) basics together with authentication and non-repudiation; vulnerabilities; security principles and testing; operating systems; and cryptography. The course meets the requirements for security fundamental principles as well as the identification and mitigation of security vulnerabilities.

Covers intrusion detection methodologies, tools, and approaches to incident response. This course explores the ethical and legal issues attendant to cyber investigations and forensics.

Provides an in-depth understanding of ethical hacking phases, various attack vectors, and preventative countermeasures including how hackers think and act maliciously. The course also covers how organizations use found system weaknesses and vulnerabilities to strengthen their system security controls and minimize the risk of an incident. This course covers an active offensive defense posture toward the responsibilities and measures required to be secure.

Introduces the policies, techniques, and operational capabilities and limitations of implementing an Active Cyber Defense program. A broad survey of development of defensible network architectures; integration of passive defensive technologies; consumptions and production of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) products; implementation of Network Security Monitoring (NSM) and Hunt Teaming (HT) operations; employment of Incident Response (IR) plans; and Threat and Environment Manipulation techniques (TEM) will be presented.

Provides an in-depth investigation of threat actors and the techniques they employ to attack networks. This course covers threat capabilities and objectives. Formal ethical hacking methodology including reconnaissance, scanning and enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privilege, maintaining access, and reporting is examined.

Covers the fundamentals of Zero Trust Networks (ZTN), including the most effective methodologies used by leading companies and cyber professionals to design and implement a ZTN. The course covers design concepts including Software Defined Networks (SDN), and how to leverage SDN and mutual authentication to create a scalable, robust, and secure network.

Introduces what constitutes cyber warfare along with its policy, doctrine, and operational constraints. This course presents a broad survey of cyber tools, techniques, and procedures to practice and implement attack methodologies.

Covers methodologies to safely perform static and dynamic analysis of code from potentially unknown origins, including obfuscated malware in order to better understand the software's purpose and functionality. This course covers the fundamental principles of malware analysis and software reverse engineering.

To be determined by the individual instructor. A Course Description will be developed for each course and documented within the course syllabus. Refer to the SFCC Style Guide for Course Description, Required Course Learning Outcome, and Topical Outline guidelines.

To be determined by the individual instructor. A Course Description will be developed for each course and documented within the course syllabus. Refer to the SFCC Style Guide for Course Description, Required Course Learning Outcome, and Topical Outline guidelines.

Examines threats to the cloud native stack, including pipelines, supply chains, infrastructure, workloads, and applications to understand how CNAPP (Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms) mitigates multidimensional threats in real-life attack scenarios.

Covers the skills and knowledge needed to apply AWS (Amazon Web Services) data protection mechanisms, security logging and monitoring, data-encryption methods, and multi-account governance, and organizational compliance strategies in a secure cloud network. The course also covers troubleshooting security issues identified through threat detection as part of the AWS Security Finding Format (ASFF) organizational incident response plan.

Covers the skills and knowledge needed to implement security controls, maintain an organization’s security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities in the cloud.

Covers the processes of developing, implementing, and monitoring an organization’s cloud security infrastructure to protect sensitive information and cloud resources against cybercrime using cloud security best practices. This course also examines recognized industry solutions to common vulnerabilities and insecure configurations.