Graduate Certificate Programs in Cybersecurity

Gain a critical understanding of the technological needs, threats, and weaknesses in cybersecurity. Through this professional graduate certificate, you will build knowledge of the tools and protocols needed to navigate, use, and manage security technologies as well as gain insight into the legal, social, and political dynamics of the cyber universe.

Develop knowledge of technical and organizational information security risks and communication tactics to mitigate these risks for both traditional and cloud-based environments.

Learn to develop and articulate effective enterprise information security policies that address internal and external national and international threats.

No application is required. You simply register for graduate courses during our fall, spring, or summer registration periods.

To meet the requirements for the certificate, you must:.

Complete the four certificate courses for graduate credit.

The professional graduate certificate in Cybersecurity requires four courses:.

CSCI E-45A The Cyber World: Hardware, Software, Networks, Security, and Management (required course may be taken in any order).

CSCI E-45B The Cyber World: Governance, Threats, Conflict, Privacy, Identity, and Commerce (required course may be taken in any order).

To be successful in this certificate, students should be comfortable with technology and technical terms as well as reading and writing technical documents. Additionally, students should have the ability to think logically and be able to analyze complex problems to determine their constituent parts.

Courses taken before the 2014–15 academic year do not toward this certificate.

If you’re also considering a master’s degree, select certificate courses can be counted toward a related degree field of study.

Learn to build information systems while gaining a deep understanding of the practical frameworks for solving complex technology problems.

Start or advance a career as a web developer with the web technologies certificate at Harvard Extension School.

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Cost of completing the certificate courses, at 2018–19 tuition rates.

Number of years, on average, it takes to complete this certificate. You may take up to three years.

Georgetown University's Cyber Security Risk Management Graduate Certificate trains students to establish and enforce mechanisms for risk governance to improve human, departmental and organizational resilience. The four-course degree provides a special approach to cybersecurity through an interdisciplinal and flexible program through which students may customize their studies to suit their educational and career objectives.

This program examines cybersecurity from multiple perspectives, including ethics, communications, risk management, compliance law, security, computer science, and organizational change. Students will interact with industry experts in the classroom, who will introduce them to the most up-to-date cybersecurity best practices. Students will also gain practical experience developing and implementing integrated risk management strategies, policies, and safeguards across a company.

Gain cybersecurity know-how through an interactive online certificate featuring real-world situations that help you become a security advocate and leader for your organization.

Its a 12 week online certificate program.

Take the lead by equipping yourself to address IT leadership's complexities and help ward off cyber threats with Tulane School of Professional Advancement's Graduate Certificate in Cyber Leadership.

The Graduate Certificate in Cyber Leadership is designed for those with a background in information technology or cybersecurity who want to position themselves as industry leaders. You'll gain knowledge and skills for positions such as cybersecurity team leader, director of cybersecurity systems, and cybersecurity division manager.

The Graduate Certificate in cybersecurity is intended to include focused and in-depth exposure to sensitive interconnected networks and infrastructure protection problems and improve graduate students' technical abilities. A applicant for this program will be individuals possessing a bachelor of computer sciences or similar area. This program's content includes classes from the Departments of Engineering and Computer Science with an interdisciplinary approach.

In the Information Systems Security Certificate program students learn to navigate real-world cybersecurity challenges and learn how to set up a secure network, secure servers, define application security requirements, and solve hypothetical security breaches. Students will develop specific technical knowledge skills and learn to place cybersecurity solutions within an overall enterprise context.

The curriculum aligns with the Common Body of Knowledge for CISSP certification. and learn to place cyber security solutions within an overall enterprise context. This certificate program requires completion of 16 credit hours (4 courses).

The CSU Business School's Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity teaches the expertise and skills required to deal with competitive, high-demand and ever-changing information processing and digital information management requires. Students learn how to recognise business vulnerability and threats and assess future impact for organizations.

After mastering basic programming principles, the students will gain considerable practical expertise in targeting and protecting simulated networks and will also demonstrate the ability to build and patch hardware and computer network applications.

Cedarville University’s Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity Management will equip students with the skills and knowledge they need for advanced roles in the in-demand field of cybersecurity. Focusing on security laws and policies, students will learn from case studies that will teach them to identify risk in an organization’s data and to create security solutions.

The four courses are available fully online, allowing students to earn the certificate from anywhere in the world, and they will experience a biblical worldview and practical application in each course.

Champlain's 100% online information security graduate certificate is designed for working professionals. A key component of this program is understanding a traditional risk-management approach, since it's important to be able to identify and quantify resources being protected.

This graduate certificate will help students to advance their information security career, highlight in-demand skills, showcase subject matter expertise, and gain knowledge that can be applied to their workplace from day one. Students build new skills, differentiate their resume, and demonstrate their value as an employee in their current organization.

A 4-course, Cybersecurity Certificate is a technical choice that needs to update its IT skills to suit new industry demands. In particular, students are able to measure and build strategies to defend the organization's infrastructure against cyber-threats by offensive and defensive preparation and incident management by completing the credential program in cybersecurity.