Cybersecurity

Centennial College’s Cybersecurity program is a one-year graduate certificate offering designed to address the industry’s increasing demand for well-educated security professionals in the public and private sectors.

This School of Engineering Technology and Applied Science program will educate you on how to protect computers, applications and networks from unauthorized and malicious users or software. It will cover the key cybersecurity concepts of cryptography, cyber forensics and network security in addition to topics such as mobile network security, cloud security, and ethical hacking techniques and tools. This Cybersecurity program will also address supporting concepts of information system security that are integral parts of cybersecurity.

To enhance your applied learning experience, you’ll learn current IT security tools, policies and techniques in a modern cybersecurity lab that was established in collaboration with the College’s industry partners.

What You’ll Learn

• Evaluate and recommend innovative cybersecurity strategies that provide secure solutions for organizational processes and applications.
• Optimize the effectiveness of information security in a business environment through risk mitigation, and auditing of information systems.
• Design and implement vulnerability assessment procedures to find and solve existing security issues in a network through monitoring and analyzing different attackers’ tactics, strategies, and techniques.
• Design and implement cybersecurity solutions and protocols in compliance with current security policies, ethical standards, and industry regulations.
• Implement and evaluate security policies and strategies by collaborating in cybersecurity projects as a multidisciplinary team member/leader to deliver effective security solutions to the clients.
• Communicate security protocols, policies, and audit results and related documentation to any level of the organization.
• Resolve security issues of the communication networks using a top-down approach through analyzing overall networks and their interconnected components.
• Develop and apply strategies for personal, career, and entrepreneurial growth to enhance work performance and maintain currency with the industry.