Cybersecurity Graduate Certificate Requirements: Advanced Security Operations
Advanced Security Operations
Cybersecurity Stackable Graduate Certificate Requirements
The School of Professional Studies: Graduate, Online
The accelerated 7 week semester online graduate Professional Studies Advanced Information Security Essentials program offers a Stackable Cybersecurity Graduate Certificate that requires 12 credits (4 courses) including:
Cybersecurity Stackable Graduate Certificate Courses: 12 credits (4 courses).
Graduate Cybersecurity Certificate students have the option to earn the complete 30 credits (10 courses) required for a MS Global Cybersecurity by stacking the three Advanced Cybersecurity Graduate Certificates.
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Transfer Credits: Our generous transfer policy allows students to transfer up to 90 credits required for a Bachelor degree, or up to 45 credits required for an Associate level degree as well as 6 credits of related graduate study. Credits presented for transfer must be from an accredited institution and a final course grade of a C or higher is required for undergraduate and a B or higher on the graduate level. Discuss with your advisor.
Prior Learning Assessments: Receive college credit for learning acquired through life experience. By evaluating a portfolio, we determine whether your experience qualifies as college level learning. Pay for one credit and receive three credits per course successfully challenged. You may challenge up to fifteen courses.
Credit by Examination: After enrolling in the School of Professional Studies, you may seek approval from your program to receive credit by examination. Contact your program's director or the Office of the Registrar for more information.
Transfer credit or credit by examination is acceptable in lieu of all Core Curriculum requirements except College Writing I (ENG-0160) and College Writing II (ENG-0170). These two courses are required of all students enrolled in the School of Professional Studies.
Advanced Security Operations
Cybersecurity Stackable Graduate Certificate (12 Credits)
GCC 6050: Offensive Security
A common approach to identifying defensive strategies is to go on the offensive. The theory is, if a friendly entity identifies vulnerabilities, they can be remediated before an attacker can identify them. However, some of these practices simply result in a false sense of security for organizations. Students will come away from this course with an understanding of what types of offensive security practices would be best for their organization.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
GCC 6100: Geopolitical Threat Landscape*
The threat landscape in the world today is poorly understood, often being diluted to easy and pithy words and phrases that do not adequately explain what is happening or who the attackers are. This course is about clearly identifying threat actors and their motivations, including the geopolitical and economic reasons for their actions. Misunderstanding the adversary can lead to missing the best approaches to circumventing attacks, as well as opportunities to think more broadly about how to address security-related issues globally rather than using only local controls at each individual business.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
*Easily Stack Gradaute Cybersecurity Certificates: This course can be applied toward the requirements for each of the three Post Baccalaureate Cybersecurity Certificates when stacked into the MS Global Cybersecurity degree.
GCC 6150: Defensive Security
Offensive security can be helpful to identify vulnerabilities that need to be addressed, but you can’t protect against everything. Organizations need to be vigilant and have the necessary visibility to notice when attackers are attempting to compromise systems. This requires appropriate architectures that enable extensive logging and the ability to consume and act on those logs. Again, this requires threat intelligence to know what is happening in the world with respect to threat groups and their activities, as well as an understanding of business requirements to identify attempts to compromise critical information assets.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
GCC 6250: Incident Response
Logging and alerting are important to get visibility into activities within the business systems but as soon as an alert happens, the organization needs to be able to respond. Often, there is a focus on the purely technical investigation when people look at incident response. This entirely misses the planning that is required when building the incident response plan and framework, since there are a variety of legal, management, regulatory, and communications considerations. These are not the types of considerations that should be considered in the middle of a crisis when an attacker is in the environment, as that is a luxury of time that no organization has at that moment.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
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