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Cybersecurity at St Lawrence College at Kingston

Once students graduate from this eight-month, full-time graduate certificate program, they will be equipped with skills to protect an organization’s computers, servers, networks, and applications from breaches and unauthorized access. The courses in the program will give students an edge in detecting breaches, computer forensics, threat hunting, and penetration testing.

In addition, this program is highly interdisciplinary and includes aspects of law, policy, human factors, ethics and risk management. Focused on cyber-defense training, the program ensures graduates are able to “think like the intruder” when deploying security techniques. Upon graduation, students acquire skills relevant to leadership roles in cybersecurity across a variety of industries and businesses.

The program provides students with skills in:

  • Problem-solving, critical thinking and troubleshooting
  • Dealing with network vulnerabilities and security issues
  • Designing secure enterprise operating system infrastructures
  • Creating plans and policies for wireless mobile device security
  • Implementing a cloud computing environment while addressing security risks
  • Performing security audits
  • Proactively researching and reporting on the current threat landscape
  • Utilizing ethical hacking practices to bolster the organization’s security measures
  • Integrating sustainability into cybersecurity practices to reduce environmental footprints of businesses.
Level Postgraduate Certificate
Discipline Computer Science and IT
Duration 8 months
Intakes Jan, Sep
Application Fees CAD 100
Tuition Fees CAD 16950
Campus Kingston
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Admission Requirements
Language proficiency (minimum)
IELTS 6.5
TOEFL 83
PTE 60
Duolingo 115
Exam proficiency (minimum)
SAT Not Required / Waiver
ACT Not Required / Waiver
GRE Not Required / Waiver
GMAT Not Required / Waiver
Requirements

Minimum GPA - 50%

Rankings
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Times Higher Education --
ARWU --
Webometrics 8541
QS Ranking

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THE Ranking

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Shanghai Ranking

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was first published in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities (CWCU), Graduate School of Education (formerly the Institute of Higher Education) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and updated on an annual basis

Webometrics Ranking

The "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities" is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. CSIC is among the first basic research organizations in Europe. The CSIC consisted in 2006 of 126 centers and institutes distributed throughout Spain.

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