Overview
The Professional Certificate in Cyber Security is aimed at graduates with an AAS degree (two-year degree) who are working in a security or IT-related field. The certificate will provide the material needed to upskill students so that they can gain cybersecurity knowledge. The certificate will be offered online as a series of half-semester 2 credit courses (the professional communications course is 3 credits). The certificate will be 20 credits. The courses in the certificate will map to federal training standards as outlined in the NIST/NICE framework.
Undergraduate Certificate
| ENGL 3140 | Technical Communication | 3 |
| CYBSC 3700 | Fundamentals of Network Security | 2 |
| CYBSC 3710 | Adversarial Thinking | 2 |
| CYBSC 3720 | Fundamentals of Data Security and Privacy | 2 |
| CYBSC 4890 | Cybersecurity Capstone | 3 |
| 8 credits from the following: | 8 | |
| Application of Security Literacy | ||
| Cyber Exercise Design | ||
| Threat Hunting and Intelligence | ||
| Digital Forensics and Incident Response | ||
| Applications of Cryptography | ||
| Fundamentals of Operating Systems Security | ||
| Fundamentals of Cloud Security | ||
| Fundamentals of Software Security | ||
| Fundamentals of Cybersecurity Scripting | ||
| Fundamentals of Cyber Resilience | ||
| Fundamentals of Cyber-Physical and Critical Infrastructure Security | ||
| Fundamentals of Web Security | ||
| Total Credits | 20 | |