Cybersecurity Management Graduate Certificate
General Graduate Program Requirements
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The minimum GPA for any graduate program is 3.0. Individual programs may require more than a 3.0 to remain in good standing.
The minimum grade for a course to be accepted toward any requirement is C. Individual programs may require higher grades for specific courses.
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE - CYBERSECURITY MANAGEMENT
- The Cybersecurity Management Graduate Certificate is designed to provide students with the technical and management skills necessary to work in the cybersecurity field.
- Students will use cybersecurity skills as a consultant or as an employee helping an organization to develop and implement a cybersecurity program or respond to security incidents. Students will explore a variety of knowledge areas of cybersecurity management and apply that knowledge in a project in the capstone course.
- The curriculum is based on the Core Knowledge Units developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Students will gain skills in programming, networking technology & protocols, databases & analytics, probability & statistics, policy, legal, ethics, and compliance, cybersecurity fundamentals & practices, and cybersecurity management & planning.
Course Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Complete all of the following courses: | ||
| BMIS 471 | Fundamentals of Network & Security Management | 3 |
| BMIS 472 | Advanced Network & Security Management | 3 |
| Complete six credits of the following courses: | 6 | |
| Business Ethics | ||
| Introduction to Real-time Data Analytics | ||
| Integrated Project Management for IS | ||
| Fundamentals of Consulting | ||
| Business Intelligence | ||
| Mining of Text & Unstructured Data | ||
| Quantitative Analysis | ||
| Management of Information Systems | ||
| Advanced Marketing Research | ||
| Applied Data Analytics | ||
| Advanced Applied Modeling | ||
| Big Data and Innovation | ||
| Technology Seminar | ||
| Seminar | ||
| Total Hours | 12 | |