Stevens launches online CyberSecurity Certificate course
Responding rapidly to the global crisis in computer and network security, WebCampus, the online unit of Stevens Institute of Technology, will next month introduce a new four-course online Graduate Certificate in CyberSecurity.
Directed by the noted IEEE Fellow Manu Malek, who until recently was a Distinguished Member of Bell Lab's technical staff, the four-course, instructor-led program helps industry grapple with increasingly serious threats to the nation's computer and network infrastructure.
WebCampus students will acquire knowledge of key elements of cybersecurity, among them the ability to authenticate users and provide confidentiality and message integrity. Introducing security protocols as well as attacks and defenses against them, the program focuses on information security, inspection, protection, detection, reaction, and reflection.
The first class to go online this fall, "e-Business Security and Information Assurance," explores application, server, and database security. Reviewing virtual local area networks (VLAN), it covers secure access, backup and disaster-recovery techniques. For the financial industry, students confront the special needs of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and smartcard security. Online classes start Sept. 19. The new program parallels a previously launched online graduate certificate in Secure Network System Design directed by Stevens Professor Sumit Ghosh.
Malek, who heads Stevens' CyberSecurity program, was awarded the IEEE Third Millennium Medal and is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Communications Society. He was founder and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Networked Systems Management and is the author and editor of seven books.
Stevens offers more than 100 graduate e-learning courses tailored to suit the educational goals of employees and companies worldwide. More than 1,000 students have studied in the school's WebCampus online graduate programs. Some 40 top-tier global corporations - AT&T, Lucent, ITT, Lockheed Martin, Prudential, Salomon Smith Barney, and Verizon, among dozens of others - provide their employees with Stevens' superior education on campus, at corporate sites, and online.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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