Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP), Continuing Education Workforce Certificate
This course prepares students for the Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) certification exam and a career as a network or security administrator. Learn about access controls and security operations, monitoring and incident recovery, cryptography and network security, and systems and application security.
Program objectives
Upon successful completion of this Continuing Education Workforce Certificate, students will be able to:
- explain authentication, identity management, and network trusts;
- identify strategies developed by cyber adversaries to attack networks and hosts and the countermeasures deployed to defend them;
- demonstrate the ability to install and configure network and host-based security technologies;
- demonstrate the ability to implement risk management, security assessment, and incident handling;
- use cryptography, encryption, Public Key Infrastructure, and certificates; and
- implement security auditing, and systems monitoring and analysis.