Full course description
This fully online course covers converging computer and communications technologies and is designed to serve the needs of those interested in understanding the field of data communications and how it relates to other areas of information technology (IT) and cybersecurity.
The course content covers both the technical concepts and organizational and human issues related to the secure networking of systems, including their design, implementation, and administration. The course also provides the broad-based knowledge and skills necessary to prepare students for further study in other specialized networking and cybersecurity courses/fields (e.g., Network Security).
Course content:
- Network Designs and Architectures
- Communications of Networked Systems
- Components of Network Systems
- Addressing of Enterprise Systems
- Organizational and Technical Implementation of Protocols
- Switching and Routing of Modern Systems
- Organizational, Human, and Technical Aspects of Network Security