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Online Graduate Certificate Programs in Cyber Security

Our Graduate Certificate Programs give you the Specializations Edge you need to be successful

Cybersecurity is one of the fastest-growing and most undefined fields in today’s world. Globally, definitions of cybersecurity vary as much as the information that is being protected.

From government secrets and corporate intelligence to competitive advantage and the private medical information on individuals, data protection is a daunting task. Organizational roles are widely unknown, and many economies are failing from a security perspective. Hackers and cybercriminals now operate in large organized crime rings making billions of dollars from unsuspecting individuals, corporations, and governments. No one is safe. Online graduate certificate programs can help professionals gain the necessary skills to combat these threats effectively.

EC-Council University’s Graduate Certificate Program focuses on the competencies necessary for cybersecurity professionals to become managers, directors, and CIOs. Students will experience not only specialized technical training in a variety of IT security areas, but they 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. Each certificate targets skills and understandings specific to particular roles in the IT security framework of an organization.The certificates can be taken individually or as multiples of up to five––each building across knowledge domains from IT practitioner skill levels to IT executive skill levels.

Our Graduate Certificate Programs

Information-Security-Professional

Information Security Professional

The Information Security Professional Graduate Certificate focuses on three areas:

  • Ethical hacking & Countermeasures
  • Managing Secure Network Systems
  • Research and Writing

The unique combination of these content areas creates the functional and organizational skill set required to design and direct the implementation of any information security plan. Upon completion of the certificate, the student will possess the ability to build, maintain, test, and communicate a secure structure at every level of the organization.

This certificate provides the framework for the four subsequent certificates and/or the Master of Security Science.

Security Analyst

This concentration focuses on testing methods and techniques to effectively identify and mitigate risks to the security of a company’s infrastructure while providing application and network-based security vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, and securing wireless networks including authentication, authorization, and encryption in accordance with industry-accepted methods and protocols.

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Enterprise Security Architect

This concentration focuses on planning, analyzing, designing, configuring, testing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting an organization’s computer and network security infrastructure. It also covers hardening enterprise architecture from the most advanced attacks, secure programming practices to overcome these inherent drawbacks to pre-empt bugs from the code and designing and implementing cloud security.

Digital Forensics

This certificate offers the required skills and expertise to conduct a digital forensics investigation successfully. The course enables the candidates to practice on a variety of digital devices activities including searching and seizing, acquisition, chain-of-custody, analysis, preservation, and reporting of digital evidence. Additionally, this certificate program offers foundational knowledge of cyber laws in different domains, such as trademark, digital rights, copyright, patents, computer crimes, hacking, privacy issues, and prosecution.

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Incident Management and Business Continuity

This certificate offers the required skills and expertise to conduct a digital forensics investigation successfully. The course enables the candidates to practice on a variety of digital devices activities including searching and seizing, acquisition, chain-of-custody, analysis, preservation, and reporting of digital evidence. Additionally, this certificate program offers foundational knowledge of cyber laws in different domains, such as trademark, digital rights, copyright, patents, computer crimes, hacking, privacy issues, and prosecution.

Executive Leadership in Information Assurance

This graduate certificate focuses on providing the fundamental skills that are needed to understand global leadership concepts, bring together all the components required for a C-Level position, and providing students with the knowledge of how to manage IT security projects to enhance the success rate for both organizations and IT managers.

Graduate Certificate Program Requirements

The application fee is $65.00 USD and is non-refundable.
Documents should be uploaded in the proper area within the online application form.

Official Identification

Include a clear scan of your government-issued identification.

We will accept:

U.S. applicants
  • Driver’s license
  • State-issued ID card
  • U.S. Passport
International applicants
  • Official Government ID
  • Driver’s license
  • Passport
U.S. applicants

Optional– Unofficial transcript included in application.
Upload a copy of your transcript on the admissions application. This will expedite the admissions process, allowing you to begin classes while we wait on the arrival of your official transcripts.

Required– Official transcripts
Contact the University where you earned your Bachelor’s degree and request that they send your official transcripts. Official transcripts must be sent to:

ATTN: Registrar
EC-Council University
101 C Sun Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109, USA

International applicants

Include a scan of your university transcript on the admissions application.

  1. Some international transcripts can be evaluated in-house. If our internal evaluator can evaluate your transcripts, then you will not need to obtain a NACES evaluation. If you would prefer that your transcripts are evaluated in-house, you will need to contact the university where you earned your Bachelor’s degree and request that they send your official transcript. We must receive an official transcript to complete the admissions process. All documents, written and issued in a foreign language, must have a certified English translation attached.

Official transcripts must be sent to
ATTN: Registrar
EC-Council University
101 C Sun Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109, USA

  1. If our evaluator cannot evaluate your transcript, you must have the transcript evaluated by an evaluator who is a member of NACES. You must choose an evaluator who is a member of NACES to complete the evaluation. A list of evaluators can be found on the NACES website: https://www.naces.org/members.html. The evaluator must send the results of the evaluation directly to ECCU.

Official evaluation results must be sent directly to:
ATTN: Registrar
EC-Council University
101 C Sun Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109, USA

U.S. applicants

No proof required

International applicants

There are several ways to show proof that you meet the English requirement.

  1. If your degree is earned in a country where English is the official language, then you do not need to provide additional proof. For example, if your degree was earned in the UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, or Nigeria.
  2. If English was the language of instruction at the university where you earned your Bachelor’s degree, then you can provide a letter from the institution stating that English was the language of instruction, and/or you can also request that the NACES evaluator state the language of instruction on the degree evaluation.

Here is a list of countries where higher education is commonly conducted in English:

  1. You can show English proficiency by taking a recognized English proficiency test.
  2. Official TOEFL PBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Paper-Based Test) score of 550 or better;
  3. OR Official TOEFL IBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test) score of 71 or better;
  4. OR Official IELTS (International English Language Test) score of 6.5 or better.

In order to qualify for admission to the MSCS or the graduate certificate program at EC-Council University, all enrolling students must be 18 years of age and have earned a Bachelor’s degree from an appropriately accredited institution with a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.5 or better.

Students whose undergraduate degrees are not in or related to the subject of information technology will be further evaluated based on work experience in the field and/or certifications achieved in information technology prior to an admission decision.

Applicants who have been denied admission may appeal the decision to the Dean.

  • Current Resume

Additional documentation in support of an applicant’s candidacy may be requested as deemed necessary by EC-Council University. All application documents are the property of EC-Council University and will not be returned to the applicant.

Pricing

$540

/Per Credit Hour
Application Fee: $65
Technology Fee: $50 per term
Graduation Fee: $200
Transcript fee: $10+Shipping**
Transcript fee: $10+shipping**
Transcript w/Apostille: $20+shipping**
Specialization: Security Analyst Fee: $1200
Specialization: Executive Leadership in Information Assurance Exam Fee: $999

FAQs

Ans. 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 offers graduate certificate programs in 6 different specializations — Information Security Professional, Security Analyst, Enterprise Security Architect, Digital Forensics, Incident Management, and Business Continuity and Executive Leadership in Information Assurance.

Ans. 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 takes over 3 to 6 months to complete. A Graduate Certificate Program in cybersecurity draws from the specialization and core cybersecurity courses from the Master of Science in Cybersecurity.

Ans. Cyber aspirants who are looking can pursue a Graduate Certificate Program from EC-Council University. Each program can be completed in 3 to 6 Months. As an additional bonus, after completing the graduate certificate program, the candidate can transfer earned credits towards a degree at the university, thus saving both time and money.

Ans. EC-Council University’s Graduate Certificate Programs have been designed to focus on proficiencies required by a cybersecurity 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 Defense Analyst, and more.