Online Cyber Security Degree Requirements
Curriculum Details
120 total credits required
Lindenwood’s online cybersecurity degree requirements consist of 120 total credit hours, including 66–67 from cybersecurity courses. As a student, you will complete a capstone course, but there is no internship or practicum requirement.
Foundation (66-67 hours)
This course will give students foundational knowledge in Information Technology. Topics covered will include the topics tested in the ITIL – Foundations certification. Extra study and experience may be required outside of the course work to prepare the student to pass the certification examination. Taking this course does not guarantee the student will pass the certification examination.
This course focuses on the use of the most popular forensics tools and provides specific guidance on dealing with civil and criminal matters relating to the law and technology. The course will include discussions on how to manage a digital forensics operation in today’s business environment. Some topics covered includes, Data Acquisition, Live Acquisitions, E-Mails and Social Media Investigations.
This course will give students intermediate knowledge related to installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows Server. Topics covered will include the topics tested in the Microsoft 70-740 certification. This course prepares the student to be a practitioner in the network field of Information Technology. Extra study and experience may be required outside of the course work to prepare the student to pass the certification examination. Taking this course does not guarantee the student will pass the certification examination.
This course will give students intermediate knowledge related to server identity administration. Topics covered will include the topics tested in the Microsoft 70-742 certification. This course prepares the student to be a practitioner in the network field of Information Technology. Extra study and experience may be required outside of the course work to prepare the student to pass the certification examination. Taking this course does not guarantee the student will pass the certification examination.
This course covers the techniques and tools for developing, implementing, managing, and/or protecting web applications. Students will study web safety and browser vulnerabilities, privacy concerns, and other web related security issues and concerns. Students will explore how to avoid vulnerabilities in web applications and the tools used to program web application servers. Finally, students will be introduced to the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and its top 10 vulnerabilities.
This course will be a culminating project course for the student’s degree program. The instructor will act as a mentor to guide students through the completion of a portfolio, or other project documents, or an internship that will demonstrate their successful completion of the goals of the degree.
This course will discuss information technology law and ethics. Students will investigate real-world cases through a law and ethics filter. Students will develop a personal code of ethics for use as information technology professionals.
This course prepares students to implement the project management body of knowledge and prepare to perform project management functions. It is an introduction to the theory and applications of project cost and schedule estimating including life cycle cost, staffing profiles, GUI, and objects metrics, and cost by phase and activity, lines of code, and project risks. It is a course in the theory of project management involving planning, organizing, staffing, tracking, measurement, and evaluation. Topics include defining projects, developing networks, managing risk, scheduling resources; inter organizational relations, Agile methods and international projects. In addition, the student will learn the real-world implications of the technologies as they are actually used in the current technological climate. This course prepares the student to be a practitioner in the network field of Information Technology.
This course is an introduction to the theory and applications of statistics, including probability, descriptive statistics, random variables, expected values, distribution functions, and hypothesis testing.
Any 3 hour general education math course will satisfy this requirement.
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