Certificate in Information Systems Security Management

15 credits

Admission requirements

1. Applicants pursuing only a certificate program will be admitted as nondegree students.
2. Applicants must complete an application form from the Graduate School and provide official transcripts from the institution granting the baccalaureate degree and each institution attended for undergraduate and graduate work.
3. Standards for admission
   1. Hold an earned bachelor’s degree from a college or university that is accredited by its regional accrediting association.
   2. Satisfy one of the following
      1. An undergraduate cumulative GPA of at least 2.75 on a 4.0 scale (all undergraduate course work, including work completed prior to the baccalaureate degree, is used to calculate the GPA).
      2. A cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale in the latter half of the baccalaureate.
      3. Students not meeting these criteria may be considered for admission at the discretion of the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management program director.
4. Students who are currently enrolled in the Graduate School and who wish to pursue this certificate program, must apply for admission to the program before 6 of the required credits are completed.
5. Graduate students enrolled only in a certificate program may not hold a graduate assistantship.
6. Students may be enrolled full- or part-time in the certificate program.
7. Students who are currently enrolled in a graduate program of study leading to a degree who wish simultaneously to pursue this graduate certificate within the Division of Online and Distance Education must inform the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management program coordinator and the Division of Online and Distance Education of their intent to seek the graduate certificate.
8. Completion of a graduate certificate does not guarantee admission into a graduate degree program.

Required Courses

ISOM 601	Intro Comp and Net Sec	3
ISOM 602	Host Hardening	3
ISOM 603	Net Designs and Sec Concerns	3
ISOM 604	Security Technologies	3
ISOM 605	Dis Recov and Comp Forensics	3

Total Credit Hours: 15