Program Description

This certificate provides students with the necessary knowledge and skills to adapt and respond to security risks. Students develop skills to implement security processes along with preparing for business resilience and continuity based on unplanned enterprise disasters. This certificate focuses on management strategies to mitigate cyber breaches and enforce technology security policies.

Mission

The mission of the IT and Cybersecurity Policy Certificate is to address the integration of security and compliance issues related to electronic user data and enterprise usage. This certificate provides the foundation to develop and manage security issues and policies. The approach is consistent will the philosophy of graduate education at La Salle. 

Program Goals

• Prepare student to assess organizational security policies, plans and procedures and implementations
• Prepare students to develop compliance programs related legislation cybersecurity legislation
• Prepare students to manage IT and cybersecurity processes

Program Specific Information

This certificate may be applied as an option for the M.S. Computer Information Science, M.S. Cybersecurity or M.S. Economic Crime Forensics programs.

Degree or Certificate Earned

Certificate

Required for Program Completion

• Courses 
  • 5
• Credits
  • 15
• GPA
  • 3.0

Student Learning Outcomes

• Develop, propose, plan and manage an organization’s security policies
• Identify federal and global legislation related to security and security threats
• Develop corporate plans for mitigating business disruptions and disasters

Academic Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
ECF 625	Litigation Support Practices and Procedures	3
CIS 615		3
CYB 644	Information Security	3
CYB 612	Ethics, Issues, and Government Regulations	3
CYB 652	Leadership Assessment and Evaluation	3
CIS 619	Crisis Management and Business Continuity	3
Total Credits		18

Course Sequence

Plan of Study Grid

First Semester		Credits
CIS 619	Crisis Management and Business Continuity	3
CYB 644	Information Security	3
	Credits	6
Second Semester
CYB 612	Ethics, Issues, and Government Regulations	3
ECF 625	Litigation Support Practices and Procedures	3
	Credits	6
Third Semester
CYB 652	Leadership Assessment and Evaluation	3
	Credits	3
	Total Credits	15

Faculty

Director: Margaret M. McCoey, M.S.
Associate Professors: Blum, Redmond, Wang
Assistant Professors: McCoey, Yin
Lecturers: Casey, Monahan, Walters, Zikmund

Program Contact Information

IT and Cybersecurity Policy Certificate
Holroyd Hall, Room 129
gradcis@lasalle.edu
(215) 951-1136

Staff Contact Information

Margaret McCoey, M.S.
Program Director
Holroyd Hall, Room 129
mccoey@lasalle.edu
(215) 951-1136