Cybersecurity
Undergraduate Certificate
Quick Facts
One of only 24 NSA-designated programs nationwide
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- Center for World University Rankings, 2024
Does fighting cybercrime as a security professional sound exciting? Are you interested in protecting sensitive data from cyber threats?
The Undergraduate Certificate in Cybersecurity is a highly technical, interdisciplinary certificate that enhances your career potential in a new field or builds on your existing skills as a technical professional.
The curriculum includes both offensive and defensive cyber security content delivered within our state-of-the-art Cyber Virtual Learning Environment to ensure you gain hands-on experience that will develop the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for career advancement.
The certificate course requirements are designed to allow students in affiliated majors the opportunity to take one to three courses toward their major, while also fulfilling optional certificate requirements. If you are a non-degree seeking student, you may earn this certificate by taking the three required courses and choosing three elective courses from the additional list of courses.
Part of the program that offers the #1 Online Bachelor’s in Cybersecurity in the Nation.
*Residents of some U.S. Territories may not be eligible. Please see our Eligibility & State Authorization page for more information.
The curriculum for this 18-unit program includes:
This course introduces you to the concepts of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA) basics. These concepts are combined with authentication and non-repudiation, vulnerabilities, security principles and testing, operating systems, and cryptography.
You will be introduced to the policies, techniques and operational capabilities and limitations of implementing an Active Cyber Defense program.
Investigate threat actors and the techniques they employ to attack networks. You will research threat capabilities and objectives. Formal ethical hacking methodology including reconnaissance, scanning and enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privilege, maintain access and reporting is examined.
Outcomes
Skills
Earning your Undergraduate Certificate in Cybersecurity will build core skills, including:
- Analytical thinking
- Cloud computing
- Computer literacy
- Critical thinking
- Cyber forensics
- Cybersecurity
- Programming
Potential Career Paths
Graduates of the Undergraduate Certificate in Cybersecurity program will be prepared to pursue the following careers:
