Schedule

Daily schedule: The 15-week Full -Time Cybersecurity program schedule operates Monday through Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm or 20- week Part –Time from 6:00 pm  to 9:30 pm. All students must attend the program at AI &CS and sign-in and sign-out each day they are in the classroom. The nine hours are divided into three, three-hour segments: pair programming formative assessment task block, mentor intervention block for retouching and extensions, and whole group classroom direct instruction block.
The pair programming formative assessment task block places two students together to work on an assignment. This enhances the learning by forcing the two students to interact regarding the assignment they are mutually working on together. A teaching assistant is also available during this time to help student pairs with any problems they are experiencing. Students are rotated through different pairs throughout the program to enable everyone to work with each other as a team and experience different levels of diversity.
The teaching assistant intervention block for re-teaching and extensions allows students to schedule time with mentors or mentors may seek out students experiencing specific problems with specific concepts from either student feedback or observation of the student’s assignments and/or projects. This allows students to address problems as early as possible to help them keep place with the other students in the program.
Whole group classroom direct instruction block includes all lectures and videos on Cybersecurity techniques, Linux, Networking, Penetration Testing, and all other classroom components listed in the Skills.
Additionally, AICS provides a monthly speaker series. The speaker series brings in employers to talk about Cybersecurity at their companies and to answer questions that the students may have about the processes and daily routines for entry-level Cybersecurity analyst at their company. AICS also provides a monthly alumni speaker series.

All daily assignments are to be completed before class starts. Instructional components may begin with a quick question and answer session over the previous daily assignment and current weekly project. AICS can be used as a workspace any time between 9:00 am and 10:00 pm Monday-Friday for those looking to work on projects or assignments beforehand.

Learning Objectives:

To become properly prepared to perform the functions of a security analyst or security engineer, it will be necessary to develop requisite skills. These include Linux, Microsoft Windows Servers, Network, and Cyber Security, including a conceptual knowledge of Python, and PowerShell. The tiered approach to learning designed in this course will provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate a mastery of these skills.

At the conclusion of this program, you will be able to demonstrate the following knowledge, skills, and abilities to a minimum level of 80 percent proficiency.