Cybersecurity - Information Assurance (Certificate)

Location(s): Main Campus

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Program Summary

Information assurance includes protection of the integrity, availability, authenticity, non-repudiation, and confidentiality of user data. Undetected loopholes in the network can lead to unauthorized access, editing, copying, or deleting of valuable information. This is where information assurance plays a key role.

Students will gain an appreciation for the difficulty of designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining information systems, services, and software products that are secure and comply with expectations of security and privacy.

Program Information

All courses must be passed with a “C-” (1.7) or better to be counted in the certificate.
Credits older than 10 years must be approved by the CSCY Department Chair before being allowed to count towards the major due to the rapid change in the industry.

Certificate Completion

This certificate program must be completed in conjunction with a degree program. The certificate will be awarded at the same time as the degree program and cannot be earned independently of a degree.

Cybersecurity - Information Assurance Curriculum (18 Credits)

CYBR 2500 - Data Communications and Networking 3 Credit(s)
CYBR 2650 - System Administration I 3 Credit(s)
CYBR 2750 - Systems Security 3 Credit(s)
CYBR 3750 - Information Assurance 3 Credit(s)
CYBR 3850 - Cybersecurity Compliance and Risk Assessment 3 Credit(s)
CYBR 3950 - Cyber Law 3 Credit(s)

Total Credits, Certificate: 18

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the program, students should be able to:

Assess security risks and identify methods to minimize their threat and/or impact.
Detect attack methodology and combat hackers from intrusion or other suspicious attempts at connection to gain unauthorized access to a computer and its resources.
Design and implement risk analysis, security policies, and damage assessment.
Provide contingency operations that include administrative planning process for incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning within information security.