Graduate Certificate
Information Assurance and Cybersecurity
Required Course for Certificate
This certificate consists of 4 courses, 3 of which are required, and 1 elective.
- The three required courses are listed in Table 1. With the help of these required courses, students will develop a strong and sound foundation of current data and network systems, security and privacy challenges in these systems and fundamental cryptographic and cybersecurity techniques to overcome these challenges.
- Students in the certificate program are required to take one elective course.The current list of electives courses is given in Table 2. The electives allow students to explore information assurance and security challenges in upcoming and modern networking, hardware and software systems.
Table 1. Required courses for certificate
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CS736 — Data Communication Networks (3- CrHrs.) |
Fall |
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CS 766 - Information Assurance & Security (3- CrHrs) |
Fall |
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CS 767 - Foundations of Network Security (3- CrHrs) |
Spring |
Table 2. Current elective courses for certificate
(students must complete one)
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CS 898 AB – Privacy Enhancing Techniques (3- CrHrs) |
Fall or Spring |
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CS 898 AM - Cyber-Physical Systems (3- CrHrs) |
Fall or Spring |
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CS 898 AN – Cloud Computing Security (3- CrHrs) |
Fall or Spring |