The Computer and Network Systems Security post graduate program prepares students for careers involving the development, evaluation, and support of IT security solutions. Building on previous educational experience, students learn to create cost effective and secure computing environments. Graduates are able to categorize, design, implement, and integrate technical and managerial safeguards to ensure the security of networked computer systems. As well, graduates acquire the skills to formulate, propose, and organize security policies and procedures to protect corporate information assets including legal, regulatory and governance issues.

The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to: collect, analyze and review information for the identification of essential data and systems including possible threats, damage and loss establish organizational policies for proper use and protection of information assets including contingency and disaster plans for backup, recovery and/or replacement of systems and data review legal, ethical, regulatory and corporate governance issues implement and configure networking hardware devices such as servers, routers, and switches as well as wireless devices for optimum security deploy and manage desktop and server operating systems and optimize system settings in order to 'harden' information systems install specific hardware and applications software for secure transmission in web and e-commerce systems including but not limited to access control, authentication, and encryption select and apply prevention techniques and countermeasures for dealing with malicious threats to information such as viruses, worms and Trojan horses install and configure network monitoring and security management utilities for the identification and measurement of possible system attacks or misuse manage network operations including policies, standards and procedures to define users in terms of what they can do, resources they can access, and operations they are allowed to perform apply and use network and operating system utilities with an emphasis on deploying preventative measures and procedures formulate and implement a migration plan that allows for the safe upgrading of networks, operating systems, and/or application software while maintaining stability and security acquire the knowledge and hands-on skills needed to prepare for industry-recognized information security certification exams.