1. Cyber Up! Digital Forensics & Incident Response Tobi West
Principal Investigator
Coastline College
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2. Agenda Background on Coastline College
Need for Incident Response Professionals
Overview
Advisory Board
Approach
Curriculum Development
Program Development
Faculty & College Support
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3. Current Program CAE-CDE since 2014
Developing Cybersecurity Talent
Cisco Networking
Cybersecurity
Operate & Maintain
CAE-CDE
since 2014
Better Prepared for Industry Roles in Cybersecurity & Computer Networking
Distance Learning
80% overall
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4. Concurrent Enrollment
Pathways to Success
K-12 to Coastline to University
Pathway Days
4 YR
Concurrent Enrollment
CCC
Cyber
Tech Girls
Cyber
Patriot
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5. 3.5M
openings
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6. NSF Award #

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8. Overview October 2018 through September 2021
Work with Advisory Board of industry professionals
Fully develop 6 courses
Write a Certificate and an AS degree
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9. Adapt & Adopt Prep Work NICE Workforce Framework – Protect & Defend
Research textbooks
Research industry certifications
Other Programs – Daytona State & Union County & Champlain College
Prep
Work
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10. Details Prep Work Platforms Addition of co-PIs
Canvas – LMS
Netlab – remote lab access
Addition of co-PIs
Anna Carlin, Fullerton College
Dr. Nancy Jones, Coastline College
Dr. Aeron Zentner, Coastline College
Addition of External Evaluator
Prep
Work
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11. Proposed Course Schedule
Spring 2019 – Cybersecurity Analyst+
Summer 2019 – Intro to Network Forensics, Incident Response, & Threat Hunting
Fall 2019 – Advanced Digital Forensics
Spring 2020 – Legal Aspects of Cyber Crime
Fall 2020 – Reverse-Engineering Malware: Malware Analysis Tools
Spring 2021 – Applied Cyber Forensics Capstone
Prep
Work
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12. Proposed Advisories No hidden prerequisites
Introduction to Security Linux+ Introduction to Python Introduction to Computer Forensics Ethical Hacking 1 2 3 No
hidden
prerequisites 4 5
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13. Program Planning & Initiatives
CST Program Growth
Cyber Up! DFIR
Palo Alto Regional Academy 04 03
NSF grant for development of Digital Forensics & Incident Response degree
Develop courses and run a regional academy 02 01
8 program courses, career- readiness workshops, industry relationships
Develop a degree and courses with Business Department
Cybersecurity Apprenticeshi p Program
Data Analytics
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14. Contact Info
CIS Department Chair
Tobi West, CISSP, GCFE
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