You’ll learn to identify potential risks, assess the impact, and respond effectively. You’ll understand how to protect networks, build secure infrastructures, secure electronic assets, prevent attacks, ensure the privacy of your customers, and protect your organization’s reputation. You’ll study research and learn best practices from leading Stanford faculty and cybersecurity professionals, all leaders in the field, from companies that include Google, LinkedIn, Symantec, and LifeLock.
- Develop solutions that protect information, data and communications from unauthorized access, data corruption, and customer lifecycle disruption
- Find vulnerabilities in your organization, and design more secure systems with proven methods
- Prevent and defend against common cybersecurity attacks
- Apply principles of secure coding to find and mitigate vulnerabilities in first-party and third-party code
- Practice key organizational management techniques to protect data across all applications and platforms, including identity and access management
- Create company policies that follow regulatory compliance and protect customer data