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Are there overviews of the Cybersecurity pathway courses?

  • Career Kickstart Cybersecurity 1: Networking Fundamentals, the first course in the Cybersecurity Pathway, is a full-year high school course that covers the fundamentals of networking. It is equivalent to a college-level Introduction to Networking course. The course interweaves essential networking concepts with relevant, hands-on problem-solving activities to maximize students’ understanding of network hardware and configuration, the use of protocols to enable reliable and accurate transmission of data between different hosts around the world, and relevant security practices that secure the transmission of data within and between computer networks.
  • Career Kickstart Cybersecurity 2: Cybersecurity Fundamentals, the second course in the Cybersecurity Pathway, is a full-year course covering foundational cybersecurity concepts and skills. It is equivalent to a collegiate Introduction to Cybersecurity course. Students will explore the current cyber threat landscape to understand the types of adversaries faced by organizations and the techniques adversaries use to compromise systems and data. Students will learn how vulnerabilities create risk and how organizations implement security controls to manage that risk. Topics in the course include physical, operational, application, and network security; security controls; cryptography; access control; attacks and detection; response; and recovery. Students will research emerging trends in cybersecurity and get hands-on experience implementing security protocols.
  • Consult the Cybersecurity Pilots Instructional Overview for additional details on both courses including full course frameworks, teacher resources, and assessment overviews.