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Enterprise Security Certificate

The University of Arizona MIS Department’s “Enterprise Security Certificate” is a Graduate level certificate targeted at current and future managers working in the IS discipline. It covers a broad spectrum of current and emerging IS Security, Enterprise systems, and Enterprise system security issues while providing professionals a broad, up-to-date perspective on practices and challenges.

Information assurance and security refers to policies, procedures, methods, and techniques that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality and non-repudiation.

Participants will be required to take three 3-unit courses for a total of 9 units. The three courses include the following:

The certificate leverages the MIS department’s current status as a Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CE-IA) with the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS). Students who sucessfully complete this certificate will receive the following NSA-CNSS certificates:     
  • CNSS 4011 – Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Professionals
  • CNSS 4012 – Senior Systems Managers
  • CNSS 4016 – Risk Analysis

Students can take all three courses as a "package" or they may take any course separately.

If all three courses are completed successfully students will receive

  • The Graduate Certificate in Enterprise Information Security, from The University of Arizona’s Graduate College
  • The National Security Agency’s (NSA) Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) certificates including
    • CNSS 4011 – Information Systems Security Professionals
    • CNSS 4012 – Senior Systems Managers
    • CNSS 4016 – Risk Analyst

The CNSS certificates are broken down as such

Course title Certificate earned
Information Security in the Public and Private Sectors CNSS 4011 – Information Systems Security Professionals & CNSS 4012 – Senior Systems Managers
Privacy, Security and Business Continuity CNSS 4016 – Risk Analyst
Introduction to Enterprise Computing Environments No individual certificate available.

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