VIRGINIA BEACH, VA - (August 11,
2003) - Tidewater Community College
(TCC) announces a new Career Studies Certificate program in
Network
Security is being added to its curriculum this fall. TCC's
program is
based on collaboration between TCC, member institutions from
the
Virginia Community College System (VCCS) and the VCCS Institute
of
Excellence for Information Technology. The program has been
designed in
response to the needs of regional employers and government
organizations. The Network Security Career Studies Certificate
program
will prepare students to perform the duties of a network security
specialist or information security officer. Enrollment is currently
being accepted.
Network security awareness is at an all-time high as the nation
prepares
to protect the critical information infrastructure. "The
need for highly
trained network security specialists has risen due to the substantial
increase in both national and global network and information
security
threats," says Robert Guess, network security instructor
with TCC. "Our
network security courses will provide the region's employers
with
personnel to combat the current barrage of viruses and attacks."
"
Network security courses have been offered at TCC for the past
year and
our initial set of students have given them high marks," Guess
states.
Many of the students work for the military, local municipalities,
educational institutions and businesses. The Career Studies
Certificate
program has been designed to meet the growing demand for expertise
in
network security and disaster recovery planning.
The core curriculum of the new Network Security program include:
Network
Security Basics; Network Attacks, Computer Crime and Hacking;
Network
Communication, Security & Authentication; Internet/Intranet
Firewalls
and E-Commerce Security; Network Security Layers; Cyber Law;
and an
approved Information Systems Technology elective.
For more information on the Network Security
program or any other
Information Technology program at TCC, contact Dean Roberta
Cool at
(757) 822-7373 or e-mail rcool@tcc.edu.
Tidewater Community College (TCC) is the second largest of
the 23
community colleges in the Commonwealth of Virginia, enrolling
more than
34,000 students annually. It is the 37th largest in the nation's
1,600
community college network and among the 50 fastest growing
large
community colleges. Founded in 1958 as a part of the Virginia
Community
College System, the college serves the South Hampton Roads
region with
campuses in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, the TCC Jeanne
and George
Roper Performing Arts Center in the theater district in downtown
Norfolk, and a regional Advanced Technology Center in Virginia
Beach.
Forty-three percent of the region's residents attending a college
or
university in Virginia last fall were enrolled at TCC. For
more
information, visit www.tcc.edu.
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