Metropolitan Community College was awarded the annual Academy Curriculum Excellence Award for providing the best delivery of the CCNA Security Curriculum in the region.
Greg Smith, MCC Instructor, says Metro is a Cisco Academy and teaches a program that allows people to pass a career certification. Smith says the security curriculum is added on to that.
He says the award is given out yearly and the recipients are selected by Cisco through a rigorously controlled criteria process.
Smith says students are learning to set up security services that protect individuals’ local area networks, specifically against unauthorized traffic, intrusions or snooping devices looking for personal information like passwords.
"It can also protect the public server. A lot of businesses have a public server where you can see what they’re about, they’re contact numbers. This can protect the server against unauthorized intrusion or against what’s called denial of service attacks. This is where they lock up your server and you can’t respond to legitimate traffic.”
Smith says protection is accomplished by using a Cisco device to set up a firewall. He says the firewall helps prevent these types of intrusions and also allows you to monitor any intrusions that may occur.
To find out more about the CCNA training at Metro, the website is mccneb.edu.