Cybersecurity, Graduate Certificate

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The Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity will use an interdisciplinary approach to provide students the essential domain knowledge to address evolving cybersecurity challenges. Students will learn to identify cybersecurity risks and to work in teams to develop appropriate, user‐friendly protection and response options. While this approach offers utility to existing cybersecurity approaches, it will be especially valuable in the creation of new approaches, especially those targeting small businesses.

Note: Students who are enrolled in this program solely are not eligible for Federal Financial Aid.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the origins, nature, and current issues in cybersecurity and its related activities using precise terminology.
demonstrate the ability to design, prototype and test cybersecurity solutions.
demonstrate the ability to work with local and regional stakeholders to identify cybersecurity risks.

Contact Information

Dr. Shamik Sengupta
Professor and Executive Director, Cybersecurity Center
ssengupta@unr.edu (Preferred)
(775)784-6953
Fax: (775)784-1877

CSE Homepage: http://www.cse.unr.edu/~shamik/
Cyber Security Center Homepage: http://www.unr.edu/cybersecurity

Computer Science & Engineering Department
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89557

Admission Requirements

Candidates for this certificate must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited academic institution. The courses offered for this certificate may be taken by current students or new students. A student must first apply to the certificate program and be admitted to be eligible to receive the certificate.

I. Program Requirements

The graduate certificate in cybersecurity uses an interdisciplinary approach to provide students essential knowledge to address evolving cybersecurity challenges. Through four interdisciplinary courses, students learn to identify cybersecurity risks and to work in teams to develop appropriate protection and response options. This interdisciplinary perspective enables students to not only use existing techniques to solve cybersecurity threats but also to develop new approaches.

Cybersecurity Courses (12 units)

Complete 4 courses from the following:

CRJ 780 - Homeland Security (3 units)
CS 701 - Introduction to Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity (3 units)
IS 670 - Computer Security, Controls, and Information Assurance (3 units)
JOUR 604 - Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Surveillance Society (3 units)
PSC 606A - Cybersecurity and International Relations (3 units)

II. Total Units (12 units)

Note:

Students who are enrolled in or have completed the certificate program may choose to continue their graduate studies and apply to a masters or doctoral program in one of the participating departments. Students accepted to a graduate program in one of these departments may reuse nine credits completed for the Graduate Certificate in the related graduate program.