Cybersecurity Certificate
Degree: Certificate
Major: Cybersecurity
Hours: 18
Cybersecurity Overview
The Cybersecurity Certificate graduate program at Lamar University is designed to help you increase your knowledge of the growing threats facing organizations, governments and individuals in the 21st century. This program provides you with the high-demand skills and abilities to defeat adversaries.
Students need to have completed Foundations of Programming prior to beginning this program. Alternatively, you may take a profiency exam to meet this requirement. Receiving this certificate will give you the opportunity to participate in stipend-based undergraduate research, along with potential internship opportunities.
Cybersecurity is part of LU's Department of Computer Science, which offers state-of-the-art equipment, small classes with a good ratio between students and professors who own solid research credentials and a lifetime commitment to quality teaching and service.
Cybersecurity Courses You May Take
Computer Network Analysis and Design: This course primarily discusses computer networks from the perspective of analysis and design. Topics include network-based applications, layered network architectures, ARQ and analysis, performance analysis, packet switching, shortest path routing algorithms, design of the Internet architecture, and its widely used core protocols.
Current Topics in Management Information Systems: This course is designed to cover new technologies and current trends in the design, development and implementation of Information Systems in a business environment.
Secure Software Engineering: This course covers five main secure software engineering topics such as security, defensive programming, reliability, program understandibility and programmer misconceptions.
Cybersecurity: Systems: This course provides a hands-on study of various attacks and defending techniques on computer software and hardware, including malware, OS security, web security, smartphone security and hardware security. Basics of C programming, OS and HTML will also be covered.
Cybersecurity: Networks: This course provides a hands-on study of various network attacks and defending techniques, including main vulnerabilities of TCP/IP protocols, attacks on DNS servers, DoS attacks, firewalls, VPNs, TLS and Blockchain. Basics of TCP/IP protoco;s will also be covered.
Career Paths for Cybersecurity
After graduation with a certificate in cybersecurity, you can expect to find your skills to be desired by employers. You will have an opportunity to work for the government, military, private corporations, banks, etc.
Primary Careers
Information security, forensic science, security software development
- Analyst or specialist
- Software engineer
- IT specialist
- Information specialist
- Government agencies
- Schools and universities
- Technology companies
- Pharmaceutical and medical companies
- Industrial manufacturers
- Chemical and refining industry