Potomac High – Advance Placement Cyber: Security

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

Career Kickstart Cybersecurity 2: Cybersecurity Fundamentals is a full-year course covering foundational cybersecurity concepts and skills and is equivalent to a college-level Introduction to Cybersecurity course. Students will explore the current cyber threat landscape to understand the types of adversaries organizations face and the techniques adversaries use to compromise systems and data. Students will learn how vulnerabilities create risk and how organizations implement security controls to manage that risk. Topics in the course include physical, operational, application, and network security; security controls; cryptography; access control; attacks and detection; and response and recovery. Students will research emerging trends in cybersecurity and gain hands-on experience implementing security protocols.