Title: Cybersecurity Operations, Advanced (10302-III)

Demonstrating Personal Qualities and Abilities
  Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
  Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving.
  Demonstrate initiative and self-direction.
  Demonstrate integrity.
  Demonstrate work ethic.
  WorkplaceReadinessSkillsPoster2019.pdf
Demonstrating Interpersonal Skills
  Demonstrate conflict-resolution skills.
  Demonstrate listening and speaking skills.
  Demonstrate respect for diversity.
  Demonstrate customer service skills.
  Collaborate with team members.
Demonstrating Professional Competencies
  Demonstrate big-picture thinking.
  Demonstrate career- and life-management skills.
  Demonstrate continuous learning and adaptability.
  Manage time and resources.
  Demonstrate information-literacy skills.
  Demonstrate an understanding of information security.
  Maintain working knowledge of current information-technology (IT) systems.
  Demonstrate proficiency with technologies, tools, and machines common to a specific occupation.
  Apply mathematical skills to job-specific tasks.
  Demonstrate professionalism.
  Demonstrate reading and writing skills.
  Demonstrate workplace safety.
Examining All Aspects of an Industry
  Examine aspects of planning within an industry/organization.
  Examine aspects of management within an industry/organization.
  Examine aspects of financial responsibility within an industry/organization.
  Examine technical and production skills required of workers within an industry/organization.
  Examine principles of technology that underlie an industry/organization.
  Examine labor issues related to an industry/organization.
  Examine community issues related to an industry/organization.
  Examine health, safety, and environmental issues related to an industry/organization.
Addressing Elements of Student Life
  Identify the purposes and goals of the student organization.
  Explain the benefits and responsibilities of membership in the student organization as a student and in professional/civic organizations as an adult.
  Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in student organization activities, such as meetings, programs, and projects.
  Identify Internet safety issues and procedures for complying with acceptable use standards.
Exploring Work-Based Learning
  Identify the types of work-based learning (WBL) opportunities.
  (Optional) Reflect on lessons learned during the WBL experience.
  Explore career opportunities related to the WBL experience.
  (Optional) Participate in a WBL experience, when appropriate.
Exploring Attacks, Threats, and Vulnerabilities
  Compare information security roles.
  Explain threat actor types and attributes.
  (Optional) Explore social engineering attack types.
  Identify the types of malicious software (malware).
  Identify the types of malicious network attacks.
  Identify the types of programming vulnerabilities and attacks.
  Identify the types of cryptographic attacks.
  Explain penetration testing concepts.
  Identify vulnerability scanning and types.
Exploring Architecture and Design
  Explain the importance of security protocols in a business environment.
  Explore virtualization and cloud computer concepts.
  Summarize secure application development, deployment, and automation protocols.
  Summarize authentication and authorization design protocols.
  Identify concepts related to the implementation of cybersecurity resilience.
  Explore the security implications of various networks, components, and systems.
  Explore the importance of security controls.
  Explore advanced cryptographic concepts.
Implementing Security Operations
  Explore secure network protocols.
  Explore host or application security solutions.
  Describe malware protection for clients and servers.
  Describe system hardening techniques.
  Develop a network security plan.
  Identify methods of encryption.
  Explain the basic network security systems and protocols.
  Describe firewalls.
  (Optional) Implement secure network design.
  (Optional) Configure wireless security settings.
  Explore secure mobile solutions.
  (Optional) Apply cybersecurity solutions to the cloud.
  Describe identity and account management controls.
  (Optional) Explain concepts related to user authentication.
  (Optional) Explore a security certificate.
Exploring Operations and Incident Response
  Explore tools to assess organizational security.
  Apply mitigation techniques or controls to secure an environment.
  Summarize the importance of policies, processes, and procedures for incident response.
  Explore data sources to support a security incident investigation.
  Develop a plan to avoid data loss.
  Explain the key aspects of digital forensics.
Understanding Governance, Risk, Ethics, and Compliance
  Compare types of controls.
  Review organizational security posture.
  Identify the importance of policies to organizational security.
  Summarize risk management processes and concepts.
  Identify privacy and sensitive data issues in relation to security.
  Summarize basic concepts of forensics.
Performing Legal and Ethical Functions
  Identify ethical behavior.
  Identify copyright and licensing laws that apply to computer use and network administration.
  Ensure the proper licensing of a client-server OS and applications.
Preparing for Industry Certification
  Describe the process and requirements for obtaining industry certifications related to the Cybersecurity Operations, Advanced, course.
  Identify testing skills/strategies for a certification examination.
  Demonstrate the ability to complete selected practice examinations (i.e., practice questions similar to those on certification exams).
  (Optional) Complete an industry certification examination representative of skills learned in this course.
Developing Employability Skills
  Update résumé.
  Update a professional portfolio that contains representative samples of student work.
  Identify potential employment barriers for nontraditional groups and ways to overcome these barriers.
Additional Course Information
  Student Competency Records
  6306 Teacher Resources.pdf
  6306 Standards Correlations.pdf
  6304_6306 Acknowledgments and Copyright Information.pdf
  6306 Credentials-Sequences-Clusters.pdf