UMass Boston

Acquire cutting-edge technical and managerial cybersecurity skills

UMass Boston's fully online Cybersecurity Management graduate certificate* integrates technical and managerial cybersecurity skills to develop your expertise in information security practices, network management for cybersecurity, cybersecurity risk management, auditing, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and forensics. As cyber threats continue to increase, the U.S. faces a shortfall of cybersecurity professionals, growing cybersecurity by more than 50% since 2015. There’s never been a better time to capitalize on this field’s rapid growth.

*Course credit from a certificate will count toward a graduate degree should you choose to continue.

In this program, you will:

• Acquire a thorough understanding of current cybersecurity techniques and methods
• Learn to apply your cybersecurity knowledge to solve business problems
• Emerge equipped to analyze and choose cybersecurity strategies for organizations and best practices on cybersecurity management

Oversee the security of an organization's information systems and develop and implement security policies and procedures as a cybersecurity manager. Provide expert advice to organizations on how to improve their cybersecurity practices as a cybersecurity consultant. Or, design and implement security systems to protect networks threats as a network security engineer. These are just a few of the possibilities.

Career Possibilities

Become a(n):

• Cybersecurity Specialist
• Consultant
• Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
• Cybersecurity Manager
• Security Analyst
• Security Engineer