Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.
- Define national critical infrastructure.
- Identify critical infrastructure and key resources sectors.
- Identify departments, agencies, and other government partners involved in protecting critical infrastructure.
- Describe critical infrastructure partnerships at the federal, state, local, and tribal levels.
- Describe how computers and humans can pose risks to infrastructure assets.
- Describe the role computers and humans play in the protection of infrastructure assets.
- Identify the physical and cyber techniques used to attack communications infrastructure.
- Explain the tools and techniques used to provide global cybersecurity.
- Identify motives used by terrorists and other malicious actors to exploit and harm critical infrastructure.
- Describe security practices aimed at protecting human and property assets.
- Describe national planning approaches, including prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery.
- Compare asset protection techniques for various critical infrastructure sectors.
- Describe the challenges owners/operators face when tasked with asset protection.
- Apply guidelines and practices for asset mitigation and protection planning.
- Describe agencies tasked with providing border and transportation security.
- Compare transportation systems security practices used in multiple modes of transportation.
- Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of border and transportation security cybersystems.
- Explain best practices for improving border and transportation security cybersystems.
