Information technology and network infrastructure are targets for malicious activity on a regular basis. News reports about data breaches, security violations, privacy failures and other infrastructure failures highlight a growing threat to business and personal information. This one-year full-time, graduate certificate program is designed to address this growing threat to our network infrastructure. It will provide students with the security background in network technologies, computing hardware, operating and protocols, to harden and further secure such systems from attack. Students will learn to identify threats through audits and supporting technical methods, as well as evaluate and develop appropriate policies to support a strong organizational security posture. This program offer skills that allow graduates to evaluate risk and design infrastructure solutions that keep a business' code, data and network systems safe.

Graduates are prepared for opportunities in advanced roles in IT systems and network administration/services, with job titles that may include: security administrator/analyst security systems engineer security auditor security architect, and network security analyst