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DeAnza College

IT Security: Defense Against the Digital Dark Arts

DeAnza College via California Community Colleges System

Overview

This course covers a wide variety of IT security concepts, tools, and best practices. It introduces threats and attacks and demonstrates the many ways they can reveal themselves. It further explores the functionality of encryption algorithms and how they're used to safeguard data, and it introduces the three As of information security: authentication, authorization, and accounting. The use of network security solutions, ranging from firewalls to Wi-Fi encryption options, are also covered. The course is rounded out by combining all these elements together into a multi-layered, in-depth security architecture, supplemented by practical recommendations on how to integrate a culture of security into an organization or team.

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