CompTIA Security+ provides foundational principles and broad-based knowledge necessary to implement and monitor security on networks, applications, and operating systems, and respond to security breaches. Security+ covers topics including foundational principles for securing a network, managing risk, access control, identity management, and cryptography.

Students will begin by understanding how perimeter defenses work and then be led into scanning and attacking their own networks via virtual labs. Students then learn how intruders escalate privileges and what steps can be taken to secure a system. Students will also learn about Intrusion Detection, Policy Creation, Social Engineering, DDoS Attacks, Buffer Overflows and Virus Creation.

This hands-on course shows how to rapidly develop and maintain effective Python programs; including a practical approach to creating and organizing Python programs using functions, packages, modules, and classes as part of Python’s object- oriented paradigm.