Cyber Security Bachelor’s Degree

Program Overview   

Governments and enterprise companies around the globe are busy in digital transformations. On the other hand, cyber security threats are growing. The Cybersecurity field is of increasing importance year after year.

Program Objectives   

NGU cyber security degree prepares students to become successful cyber security professionals, ready to enter the job market place, and contribute to protecting the critical assets for their organization.

Program Curriculum   

NGU cyber security curriculum is built using a bottom-up approach. Students first learn network operating systems, application layers and network fundamentals. After that they move up studying systems security, network security, applications security and security frameworks. This gives NGU students the ability to be on the same page on the technical teams from the various departments, and be able to see how the security controls are integrated with existing solutions. This bottom-up approach provides students with technical abilities to assess organization cyber security needs, design the optimum solution, implement the required network security controls, build the required process and procedures for detecting the adversary’s activities and the incident response plan.

Industry Certifications   

Governments and enterprise companies around the globe are busy in digital transformations. On the other hand, cyber security threats are growing. The Cybersecurity field is of increasing importance year after year.

  1. CCNA Routing and Switching
  2. CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)
  3. PaloAlto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE)
  4. Fortinet Network Security Professional (NSE4)

Our Subjects Include   

Network Fundamentals   

NGU cyber security degree prepares students to become successful cyber security professionals, ready to enter the job market place, and contribute to protecting the critical assets for their organization.

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:   

  • Explain what is a network, network types, and network topology 
  • Explain the host-to-host communication model
  • Understand Ipv4 and Ipv6 and implement Ipv4 subnetting
  • Understand routing concepts
  • Understand switching concepts
  • Explain Network Address Translation (NAT)
  • Explain Network Time Protocol (NTP)

This subject will cover the following topics:   

  • Introduction to computer network
  • Types of networks and network characteristics 
  • Types of network topologies 
  • host-to-host communication model
  • Difference between OSI and TCP/IP models
  • Understanding binary numbers and how they work
  • Understanding IPv4 and IPv6 and the difference between them
  • Practical subnetting exercises to define possible subnets
  • Understanding Switching concepts 
  • Understanding Routing concepts 
  • Understanding Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)
  • Switching Port security
  • Introduction to Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
  • Introduction to Access Control Lists (ACLs)
  • Syslog Servers
  • Understanding Network Address Translation (NAT)
  • Understanding Network Time Protocol (NTP)

Routing and Switching   

This subject will provide students with technical experience on switching and routing operations that can support small-to-medium business networks, they will get hands-on labs with instructions and build a full network topology with IPv4 and IPv6, different routing protocols, VLAN configuration, and Inter-VLAN routing, this subject also includes a lab with all that was learned to measure their technical skills, this subject is the 3rd in our Degree Program.

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:   

  • Explain and Configure different routing protocols
  • Explain and Configure VLANs and VLAN-Inter Routing
  • Identify and troubleshoot configuration issues in cisco routers and switches
  • Configure switches with security best practices 
  • Configure dynamic routing protocols with IPv6
  • Understanding Layer-2 and Layer-3 Switches

This subject will cover the following topics:   

  • Configuring Ipv4 and Ipv6 on routers 
  • Understanding LAN Security Concepts
  • VLAN configuration hands-on labs
  • Configuring multilayer switch
  • Understanding and Configure Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
  • Understanding And Configure EtherChannel
  • Understanding Local Area Network (LAN) Security
  • Understanding and configuring Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
  • Configuring IP Static Routing and Default Routing 
  • Configuring Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)v4
  • Troubleshoot Static, Dynamic, and Default Routes
  • Configure EIGRP routing protocol with IPv4 and IPv6
  • Understanding Metrics of EIGRP routing protocol
  • Understanding EIGRP Successor, FS, RD, and FD
  • Configuring OSPF routing protocols
  • Configuring and understand Multi-Area OSPF
  • Configuring and understand Single Area OSPF 
  • Understanding Different Types of Access Control Lists (ACLs)
  • Configuring Extended and Named Access Lists
  • Understanding VPNs
  • Configuring Site-to-Site VPN
  • Final Lab Project

Fundamentals of Information Security   

This subject will teach students the fundamentals of cyber security, with this subject students will understand why is cyber security needed and why is it crucial in our present time. They will learn about different types of attacks, how they happen, how to reduce the attack surface, and different security tools and technologies.

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:   

  • Describe different network security devices
  • Describe different types of wired and wireless network attacks
  • Explain how known attacks happen
  • Recommend remediation methods for known attacks
  • Explain Data Life Cycle

This subject will cover the following topics:   

  • Understanding Malware and Malware attacks
  • Understanding Social Engineering, service attacks
  • Understanding different types of threat actors
  • Understanding MITM, APT, DDOS, and Zero-day exploits
  • Learning different methods to reduce the attack surface
  • Understanding security tools and technology
  • Understanding the use of different security devices
  • Understanding Data Loss Prevention
  • Understanding Configuration Management and Change Management
  • Understanding wireless access points, controllers, and wireless security
  • Understanding governance, risk, and compliance(GRC)

Network Security   

This subject is for students who want to have the understanding and technical experience which they need to configure a Palo Alto Firewall. This subject will give students details of how to configure Palo Alto Firewall and learn how to configure URL Filtering, Antivirus, Policies, and more using hands-on labs that mimic real network topologies so they can have solid skills that will help them in their future careers.

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:   

  • Explain Cyber Security Kill Chain
  • Know how to use VMware workstation and Eve-ng
  • Install and Configure Palo Alto Firewall
  • Understand and Configure Security and NAT Policies
  • Understand and configure Palo Alto Application Security Profiles

This subject will cover the following topics:   

  • Understanding Cyber Security threats and Vulnerabilities
  • Understand Cyber Security Kill Chain
  • Introduction to Firewalls and Next-Generation Firewalls
  • Understanding Firewall architecture
  • Understanding Unified Threat Management (UTM) Firewall
  • Understanding Network architecture
  • Learning how to use applications like VMware and EVE-NG
  • Understanding and Configuring different types of PaloAlto FW interfaces
  • Understanding and Configuring PaloAlto Zones and Routing
  • Understanding and Configuring PaloAlto NAT and Security policies
  • Understanding and Configuring PaloAlto different Application security profiles
  • Understanding and Configuring PaloAlto policies using APP-ID
  •  Understanding and Configuring PaloAlto USER-ID

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