Virginia Cybersecurity Fundamentals
- Level High School
- Contact Hours 125
- Timeframe Year
This course introduces the principles of cybersecurity, emerging technologies, threats and protective measures, and investigates the diverse high-skill, high-wage, and high-demand career opportunities in the field of cybersecurity.
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MODULES - 13
Students explore the basics of cybersecurity, why cybersecurity is important, recent threats to cybersecurity, and different careers in the field.
Students learn digital etiquette on how to use world wide web safely, ethically, and effectively.
Students create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) to teach their peers about digital citizenship and cyber hygiene.
Students investigate security options and implement user accounts to enforce authentication and authorization.
Students learn basic SQL and common attacks like SQLi, and solutions for flawed security systems.
Students develop a training policy that informs employees on matters of network security and detail the company policy on preventative measures employees should take.
Students dive into the history of cryptography systems, the motivation behind using encryption systems, and basic cryptography systems.
Students explore the structure and design of the internet and networks, and how this design affects the reliability of network communication, the security of data, and personal privacy.
Students learn about the physical elements of computers and networking, such as motherboards, RAM, routers, and the use of port numbers, ethernet, and wireless devices.
Students explore the troubleshooting methodology and utilize it to solve sample IT support issues.
Students explore cybersecurity career pathways and build skills that will be needed within these fields such as communication.
Students conduct a security audit and examine port scanning, packet sniffing, and proxy servers to discover exploits in a system.
Students demonstrate mastery of topics learned throughout the course.
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The CodeHS Cybersecurity Level 1 Certification offers high school students the opportunity to validate their mastery of Cybersecurity, giving them a competitive advantage when entering college or the workforce.
Learn More| Standards Framework | Alignment |
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It covers 93% of the Virginia Cybersecurity Fundamentals standards. The CodeHS standards page lists each standard next to the lesson that covers it, so you can see exactly what the remaining 7% is before you adopt it.
The principles of cybersecurity, emerging technologies, threats and protective measures, and the career opportunities in the field. Units run through cryptography, system administration, software security, networking fundamentals, IT infrastructure and risk management.
It includes a Cybersecurity Level 1 Certification Practice module alongside the core content.
Yes, and the description makes it a named goal: the course investigates the high-skill, high-wage, high-demand career opportunities in cybersecurity. An IT professional project puts students in one of those roles.
Some, in support of the security content. A Web Development unit and a SQL unit are included, but there is no general programming sequence and no language recorded on the course.
A public service announcement, a security assessment report, a troubleshooting project, a digital forensics project, an IT professional project, a written policy project, and a final course project.
CodeHS places it at 10th grade in the Virginia High School Computer Science pathway, and lists it for grades 9 and 10 in the broader Virginia state pathway.
About 125 contact hours, built to run across a full school year. A pretest and posttest are included so you can measure growth.
