Diploma in Cyber Security

What is this Program? The SUNY Potsdam/NEF Diploma in Cyber Security is part of an initiative, often focused internationally (e.g., India), to provide world-class, job-ready training in high-demand 21st-century skills. It is an online or blended learning program, with the curriculum content developed and delivered on a Learning Management System (LMS) by a global content provider like SkillSoft, USA, and certified by SUNY Potsdam. Duration & Credits Duration: Typically, six months Specializations Specific specializations within this particular diploma are not explicitly detailed, but general cybersecurity training focuses on areas like: Network Security Ethical Hacking Digital Forensics Security Operations

Core Modules

• Information and Risk: Concepts like Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA), risk identification, assessment, and mitigation.
• Threats and Attacks: Understanding various threats, attack types, and how they exploit vulnerabilities.
• Cybersecurity Architecture and Operations: Physical and process controls, vulnerability mitigation, and organizational compliance.
• Secure Systems and Products: Principles of secure design, defensive programming, and testing.
• Cybersecurity Management: Legal, regulatory, and professional contexts; constraints on implementation.
• Cybersecurity Foundations — security principles, threat landscape, basic cryptography.
• Networking & Systems Security — network protocols, firewalls, secure OS configuration.
• Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing — recon, vulnerability scanning, exploitation basics, reporting.
• Endpoint & Application Security — host hardening, secure coding basics, OWASP Top 10.
• SIEM & SOC Operations — log collection, SEIM basics, alerting, playbooks.
• Incident Response & Threat Hunting — triage, containment, eradication, forensics pipeline.
• Digital Forensics — evidence collection, disk/memory forensics, chain of custody and reporting.
• Cloud & IAM Security — identity management, cloud security basics, container security intro.
• Malware Analysis & Defensive Tools — sandboxing, AV/EPP, detection fundamentals.
• Risk Management, Compliance & Privacy — security policy, standards, privacy basics (GDPR/regionals).
• Capstone / Industry Project — simulated breach remediation / full SOC incident handling or penetration test report.
• Career Readiness Module — resume, interview prep, certification pathway mapping (e.g., CompTIA Security+, CEH, CISSP path).

Learning Outcomes

• Explain core cybersecurity concepts and the modern threat landscape.
• Secure and harden networked systems and apply defense-in-depth principles.
• Conduct basic penetration tests and vulnerability assessments and produce professional remediation reports.
• Detect, investigate and respond to security incidents using standard SOC procedures and tooling.
• Perform elementary digital forensic acquisition and analysis and prepare admissible reports
• Assess risk and map organizational controls; apply compliance and privacy basics to real scenarios.
• Present a professional capstone demonstrating technical competence and communication skills to non-technical stakeholders.