Graduate Certificate - Cyber Security (CYGS/CYGJ)

Students will gain the knowledge and in-demand skills needed to become an industry-ready IT security professional. Graduates of this two-year post-graduate program will be equipped to help organizations prevent fraud, data breaches and other vulnerabilities.

With this hands-on program, students will learn the knowledge and skills needed to protect and support organizations’ cyber security needs:

• Learn how to develop, implement and evaluate cyber security solutions to protect organizations from internal and external threats. • Practise assessing defensive programming and cyber security strategies, and gain experience recommending security controls for the effective maintenance and deployment of cyber security solutions to protect systems and information. • Acquire skills for designing and implementing cyber security polices and strategies using project management principles. • Develop strategies for optimizing the effectiveness of the information security in a business environment through risk mitigation and information systems auditing. • Explore designing and implementing vulnerability assessment procedures to identify and solve existing network security issues. • Get first-hand workplace experience during a co-op in semester four.

While completing this program, students will have the opportunity to acquire in-demand industry certifications concurrently with their studies.