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Cyber16Graduate Certification of System Cybersecurity Program in both FTF and SRL models

VIST offers a Certificate Program for System Cybersecurity, which is a 22.5-credit program consisting of the five courses. Graduates of this program will be awarded a Certificate of Cybersecurity System Analyst. (Choose 5 out of 9 courses. Each is 4.5 credit hours)

CSIS 500 – Principles of Security in Computing
CSIS 510 – Trusted Computing
CSIS 528 – Network Principles and Cybersecurity Strategy
CSIS 530 – System Assessment & Security Risk Analysis
CSIS 570 – Enterprise Security Technologies
CSIS 580 – Cybersecurity Intelligence/Counter Intelligence
CSIS 590 – Introduction to Cloud Computing
CSIS 594 – Legal and Ethical Aspects of Cybersecurity
CSIS 650 – System Architect and Cybersecurity

The course curriculum and instruction for certificate candidates will be identical to the curriculum and instruction for
Master’s degree candidates.

FTF — Face-to-Face Teaching in classroom

SRL — Synchronous Remote Learning in real-time virtual environmental via online technology.