Given a finite, simple graph G, the k-component order connectivity (resp. edge connectivity) of G is the minimum number of vertices (resp. edges) whose removal results in a subgraph in which every component has an order of at most k − 1. In general, determining the k-component order edge connectivity of a graph is NP-hard. We identify conditions on the vertex degrees of G that can be used to imply a lower bound on the k-component order edge connectivity of G. We will discuss the process for gene