Ontario College Advanced Diploma in Cyber Security (Co-op)

Fanshawe College

The more we rely on technology in our personal and professional lives, the more sensitive data becomes at risk to cyber attacks. Fanshawe’s Cyber Security program is a three-year advanced diploma that will provide you with foundational information security (InfoSec) skills and knowledge necessary to be successful in the IT security industry. You’ll graduate confident in your ability to provide organizations with data protection against cyber incidents and develop measures to keep critical infrastructures safe.Through hands-on lab activities, case study analyses, and research projects, you’ll enhance your information security understanding and develop your interpersonal, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills. This program will also include three co-operative education work placements to further enhance all of those skills.You’ll begin by exploring foundational topics in our cyber security courses, including information security, ethics, network management/analysis, programming and scripting, operating systems, and database management. Building on those foundational topics, the curriculum will also develop your skills in the areas of risk analysis, cryptography, vulnerability testing, access control implementation, and security audit performance. Upon completion of the program, you’ll be able to proactively implement critical infrastructure and sound security practices in any organization to mitigate cyber threats and respond quickly to security breaches on sensitive information.

School of Information Technology