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Cyber Security

Cyber security is one of the fastest-growing and most undefined fields in today’s world. Globally, definitions of cyber security vary as much as the information that is being protected. Cyber Security encompasses practices, strategies, and technologies designed to protect digital systems, networks, and data from cyber threats. It plays a pivotal role in safeguarding sensitive information, ensuring privacy, and maintaining the integrity of digital ecosystems.

Online Graduate Certificate Programs

An online graduate certificate program is a short-term specialized course designed for students to offer them a compiled learning of a master’s degree over 3 to 6 months.

EC-Council University’s Graduate Certificate Program focuses on the competencies necessary for cyber security professionals to become managers, directors, and CIOs.

Students will experience not only specialized technical training in a variety of IT security areas, but will also acquire an understanding of organizational structure and behavior, the skills to work within and across that organizational structure, and the ability to analyze and navigate its hierarchy successfully.

Program Benefits

EC-Council University has created a sample framework of functional and executive roles derived roughly from the United States Department of Homeland Security Essential Body of Knowledge (EBK), as published in 2007

Each graduate certificate contains a series of benefits:

· Preparation for Industry Recognized Certifications

· NSA Program Mappings

· Executive Leadership Development

· Master’s Level Education

· Promoting Critical Thinking

· Ethical Practice

· Scholarship & Research

The graduate certificates build upon each other, moving students through levels of skills and knowledge increasingly directed to managerial and leadership positions in cyber security.

Graduate certificates do not guarantee certification, but do prepare students to challenge the various independent industry examinations.

Difference between a degree and a graduate certificate program

EC-Council University’s master’s degree has 5 specializations with 12 courses each and takes about two years to complete. On the other hand, Graduate Certificate Programs have 6 specialized courses that take over 3 to 6 months to complete. A Graduate Certificate Program in cyber security draws from the specialization and core cyber security courses from the Master of Science in Cyber Security.

EC-Council University's Graduate Certificate Programs specialization

EC-Council University offers graduate certificate programs in 6 different specializations

· Information Security Professional

· Security Analyst

· Enterprise Security Architect

· Digital Forensics

· Incident Management Business Continuity

· Executive Leadership in Information Assurance

Job Role after Graduate Certificate Programs

EC-Council University’s Graduate Certificate Programs have been designed to focus on the proficiencies required by a cyber security professional to secure high-level jobs. Some of the job roles one can apply for after completing their graduate certificate program are Ethical Hacker, Information Assurance (IA) Security Officer, Network Security Engineer, Cyber Defence Analyst, and more.