About the Program

As cyber threats continue to increase, organizations face challenges in recruiting cybersecurity professionals. The United States faced a shortfall of almost 314,000 cybersecurity professionals as of January 2019 and the number of unfilled cybersecurity jobs has grown by more than 50 percent since 2015.

The Cybersecurity certificate integrates both technical and managerial challenges in cybersecurity. The program provides a unique perspective on information security, network management for cybersecurity, cybersecurity risk management and auditing, cybersecurity and cloud computing, and forensics.   

The cybersecurity certificate will:

• Apply varied cybersecurity knowledge to solve business problems.
• Provide high quality education in utilizing current cybersecurity techniques and methods.
• Teach students to analyze and choose cybersecurity strategies for organizations as well as best practices on cybersecurity management.