Dec 05, 2024  
Baltimore City Community College’s 2024 - 2025 Catalog 
    
Baltimore City Community College’s 2024 - 2025 Catalog

Cyber Security and Assurance, AAS


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Cyber Security and Assurance Degree 

The new degree program in Cyber Security and Assurance at BCCC emphasizes the need to build a wall between our information and those who want to exploit it. Recurring events such as virus and worm attacks and the success of criminal attackers illustrate the weaknesses in current information technologies and the need to heighten security of these systems. Students will gain practical experience in understanding the threats and dangers, security assessments and analysis for a wide range of different businesses, and the steps that need to be taken to mitigate these vulnerabilities by using state-of-the-art technology. The program prepares students for vendor-specific or commercially available security certification.

Suggested Sequence of Courses

** All BCCC students must meet the College’s Computer Literacy requirements in order to receive a degree or a certificate. All first-time, full- and part-time degree and certificate seeking students are required to complete the PRE 100  course within the first six credits.

Program Learning Outcomes


  • Follow a structured model in Security Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

  • Detect attack methodology and combat hackers from intrusion or other suspicious attempts at connection to gain unauthorized access to a computer and its resources

  • Protect data and respond to threats that occur over the Internet

  • Design and implement risk analysis, security policies, and damage assessment

  • Plan, implement and audit operating systems’ security in a networked, multi-platform and cross platform environment

  • Provide contingency operations that include administrative planning process for incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning within information security

1st Semester


Total Semester Credits 16


2nd Semester


Total Semester Credits 15


3rd Semester


Total Semester Credits 14


Total Semester Credits 15


Program Total 60


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