The goal of this course is to provide students with the necessary applied security knowledge and background to effectively continue with their cyber security program. This course will help them to design and implement an effective security strategy in a corporate network environment. This course will cover anti-virus tools, security policies, password management, risk analysis, security policies, network communication vulnerabilities, enhancing security with cabling and network hardware, understanding different types of firewalls, packet filtering and NAT, setting up and securing a virtual private network, and understanding hacker exploits. Current industry trends will be reviewed.