The Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity Studies is a specialized program that is designed to prepare students for a range of career opportunities within the cybersecurity field. UAH is certified as a national Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Education. The certificate program includes 15 semester hours of classes and covers topics including cryptography, data and information security, network defense, and digital forensics. A subset of these certificate courses may be used to satisfy requirements for the MS-Information Systems and MS-Cybersecurity- Management Track programs.

Required Courses
IS 501
CYBERSECURITY PRINCIPLES 1
IS 550
CYBERSECURITY MANAGEMENT 1
IS 560
NETWORKING & IT INFRASTRUCTURE 1
IS 577
NETWORK DEFENSE & SECURITY 1
IS 663
COMPUTER FORENSICS
Total Hours15
 
 
1

Students whose previous studies include the undergraduate equivalent of IS 501, IS 550, IS 560, and/or IS 577 must substitute a 3-credit-hour graduate-level course.

For more information contact:
Tressa Hillman-Moore

Graduate Advisor
Business Administration Building Room 102 
256.824.6732 
gradbusiness@uah.edu