What You'll Learn
The Cybersecurity Foundations certificate will introduce you to the bedrock ideas and practices of the field of cybersecurity. Learn about the security mindset, how to protect sensitive information, the attacks that happen in the digital world, and more.
By the end of this certificate, you’ll have an entry-level understanding of the most important aspects of cybersecurity and hands-on experience with a range of cybersecurity practices.
Certificate Prerequisites
Introduction to Cybersecurity
Before beginning this certificate program, students should have prior programming experience and knowledge of basic Linux command line. Additional prerequisites apply to later courses in the certificate sequence.
Application Security
Students should have programming experience and basic knowledge of html, css, JavaScript, and C.
Network Security
Students must have basic knowledge of 5-layer TCP/IP protocol stack, Wireshark, and some Python programming. Students should have used ssh and Linux command line interface, but do not need to be experts.
Security Policies and Procedures
Students must complete Introduction to Cybersecurity before enrolling in this course.
Students can meet all of these prerequisites through outside experience or by completing Computer Science Foundations (Fall and Winter quarter, 16 credits).
Email certificates@evergreen.edu if you have questions about these prerequisites.
Certificate Coursework
This certificate consists of 16 undergraduate credits.
Introduction to Cybersecurity - Fall Quarter, 4 credits
Applications Security - Winter Quarter, 4 credits*
Network Security - Spring Quarter, 4 credits*
Security Policies and Procedures - Spring Quarter, 4 credits*
*To earn this certificate, students are required to earn upper division science credit in Applications Security, Network Security, and Security Policies and Procedures. Upper division science credit is considered to be junior-senior college level work. Other colleges/universities often use course numbers 300-499 to signify that a course is upper-division. While you may be eligible to receive upper division credit in Introduction to Cybersecurity, it is not required to earn the certificate.
Learn more about courses in the Academic Catalog