Digital credentials for college students

This credential earner has the advanced competencies to evaluate an organization’s data security posture. The individual has the technical knowledge and practical skills to evaluate data security and privacy concepts, assess risk, develop a backup plan, and apply file and drive encryption in various contexts. The earner has practiced essential workplace skills and explored cybersecurity career pathways.

This credential earner has the advanced competencies to apply appropriate controls to a vulnerability of an organization. The individual has the technical knowledge and practical skills to justify threat mitigation tactics, categorize vulnerabilities by severity, evaluate the current state of organizational security, and analyze the impact of cybersecurity threats on systems and processes. The earner has practiced essential workplace skills and explored cybersecurity career pathways.

This credential earner has the advanced competencies to design a secure network that includes systems and security devices. The individual has the technical knowledge and practical skills to secure a host operating system, update firmware, and enhance system architectures in various contexts. The earner has practiced essential workplace skills and explored cybersecurity career pathways.

This credential earner has the advanced competencies to ensure the protection of cloud systems, data, applications, and infrastructure. The individual has the technical knowledge and practical skills to apply the appropriate cloud computing framework for an organization’s needs and to summarize key concepts for securing cloud data, infrastructure, and applications. The earner has practiced essential workplace skills and explored cybersecurity career pathways.

This credential earner has the advanced competencies to assemble the components required for security operations and monitoring. The individual has the technical knowledge and practical skills to distinguish between standard security models, assign security operations center roles and tasks, perform network reconnaissance, manage endpoints, and monitor devices. The earner has practiced essential workplace skills and explored cybersecurity career pathways.

This credential earner has the advanced competencies to investigate incident reports through digital forensics. The individual has the technical knowledge and practical skills to apply an appropriate incident response framework given an organization’s need, analyze digital forensics evidence, and explain the preservation of digital forensics evidence. The earner has practiced essential workplace skills and explored cybersecurity career pathways.

This certificate earner has advanced technical skills in cybersecurity, such as security posture evaluation, vulnerability assessment, network architecture, cloud infrastructure security, security operations, and incident reporting. Through completion of a comprehensive curriculum, application-based assessments, and authentic experiential learning, the earner has developed workplace and career management skills and industry knowledge, and is prepared for a cybersecurity career across industries.