Cybersecurity Graduate Certificate Requirements: Advanced Software Security
Advanced Software Security
Cybersecurity Stackable Graduate Certificate Requirements
The School of Professional Studies: Graduate, Online
The accelerated 7 week semester online graduate Professional Studies Advanced Software Security 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 Software Security
Cybersecurity Stackable Graduate Certificate (12 Credits)
GCC 6075: Programing in Robust
Learning to program is an essential practice, since it forces a structured, logical way of thinking, while also encouraging a level of creativity in problem solving. Languages like C have been used to teach programming for decades, but C has been enabling very bad programming practices since the late 1960s. Newer languages like Rust encourage better programming practices, focusing on solid exception handling, in addition to good memory management techniques. This course is a primer on programming in Rust, without the expectation of anyone coming out an expert in programming but having had an understanding of the approach to problem solving necessary for programming tasks.
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 Graduate 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 6175: Software Validation
Vulnerabilities often start in software. This is not entirely true, since the biggest source of vulnerabilities is the human element, but to the extent possible, vulnerabilities can be controlled with solid software testing and validation. This course will build on the programming skills from the Programming in Rust course, introducing testing practices and principles used against software, including native as well as web-based applications.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
GCC 6275: Security Across the Lifestyle
The software industry is undergoing a major shift in the delivery of functionality to the end user. Many traditional native applications (applications that run on a local system) are moving to a web-based delivery model, where a uniform interface is used regardless of the application - - the web browser. This shift has put a lot more control back in the hands of the company developing the software and has the potential to enhance security, by reducing vulnerabilities and enabling better resilience in a more cost-effective way. This course introduces security early in the software development lifecycle, identifying ways to inject security practices in the requirements, development, testing and deployment phases. Understanding how to protect information from the start of the development process all the way through deployment of software will go a long way to making it harder to get to information assets.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
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