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What is a diploma in Cybersecurity?

The Cybersecurity Diploma program delivers essential education in securing digital systems, networks, and infrastructures from evolving cyber threats. Students will gain technical skills and strategic insights to protect sensitive information, secure operating systems, and safeguard network architectures. The curriculum focuses on applying cybersecurity principles to protect digital systems, conducting risk assessments and vulnerability analyses, implementing secure network and system administration practices, and executing ethical hacking and penetration testing to assess and enhance defenses.

Cybersecurity Courses

Your cybersecurity courses will prepare you for success in either a future career or pursuing a four-year degree. In this program, you’ll take classes like:

  • Network Security
  • Cybersecurity Analyst
  • Offensive Cybersecurity

Pathway to a Career in Cybersecurity

Advance your career at your own pace. Each step below transfers credits to the next. Appropriate job titles and average pay ranges are meant to help guide an individual interested in this field; they vary based on individual experience and employer.

Wage information taken from Lightcast Q1 2025 Data Set – QCEW Employees. Wage range is 25%-75% hourly average in surrounding 3-county region.

 Kristin  Gower

Kristin Gower

Assistant Professor – CIS
Schnecksville, PA