1/3 tuition scholarship to LETDANYS members who are sworn law enforcement, as well as to sworn members of their agencies.
The Homeland Security Management Institute at Long Island University – Riverhead is proud to announce a very unique and very innovative new graduate-level program: a fully online, fully accredited 15-credit Advanced Certificate in Cyber Security Policy. This exciting new graduate-level program and its cutting-edge curriculum will be offered beginning in the summer 2012 semester, and it was designed to complement our existing Advanced Certificate in Homeland Security Management and Master of Science in 
Homeland Security Management programs.
As a law enforcement professional, you know that the most critical emerging trend in our field involves an increasing recognition of the host of substantial and evolving threats emanating from the cyber domain. Indeed, FBI Director Robert Mueller recently predicted that cyber attacks will soon surpass terrorism as the greatest threat to our Nation, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has warned of the potential for a cyber attack that could be “the equivalent of Pearl Harbor”, and in Congressional testimony about the 2012 Worldwide Threat Assessment Director of National Security James Clapper cautioned that cyber threats pose a critical national and economic security concern due to continued advances in information technology and our growing dependence on it.
The Homeland Security Management Institute’s new 15-credit graduate-level Advanced Certificate in Cyber Security Policy curriculum reflects the most current knowledge and most critical insights in the cyber security field, and is presented by a faculty of Senior Fellows who are nationally recognized for their professional expertise as well as their exceptional academic credentials. The new program will prepare managers, executives, and law enforcement professionals to develop and implement cogent policies that protect their organizations from cyber-attacks, and it is characterized by the same high academic standards and policies that make HSMI the Nation’s leading graduate program in the Homeland Security field. In recognition of the outstanding graduate education we provide, in 2007 the Homeland Security Management Institute was designated by Congress as a DHS academic Homeland Security Center of Excellence, and we hold the distinction of being the only DHS Center of Excellence to offer a degree in the Homeland Security field.
The new Advanced Certificate in Cyber Security Policy program consists of five (5) courses: HSM 500 – Introduction to Homeland Security Management; HSM 520 – Constitutional Issues in Homeland Security Management; HMS 535 – Cyber Security: Issues, Policy, and Terrorism; HMS 545- Advanced Cyber Security Policy and Intelligence; and HMS 555 – Advanced Cyber Security: Technology Issues for Policy Makers.
Importantly, the new Advanced Certificate in Cyber Security Policy program courses are, like the courses in our existing Advanced Certificate in Homeland Security Management program, fully applicable as the core curriculum of our fully online Master of Science in Homeland Security Management degree. Thus student colleagues who earn the new 15-credit Advanced Certificate in Cyber Security Policy can apply all of those courses toward our 36-credit Master’s degree with no loss of credit. Those who go on to earn the full Master’s degree will receive both graduate credentials – the Advanced Certificate and the Master of Science degree.
Like all of our graduate-level courses and programs, the new Advanced Certificate in Cyber Security Policy is “designed and delivered by professionals, for professionals”. Our distinguished faculty of Senior Fellows include the Nation’s leading experts in the law enforcement, intelligence, emergency management, and cyber security fields, and they combine a remarkable depth of practical experience and expertise with doctoral degrees and other exceptional academic credentials. Our renowned faculty are all ‘practitioner-scholars’ – they are among those rare individuals who are as comfortable and as proficient in the ‘real world’ of practical application as they are in the rarified academic environment of theories and ideas, and who can move fluidly between the two worlds to apply the lessons and knowledge of one to the other.
Our flexible, asynchronous, and fully online programs are designed to meet the needs of busy professionals including members of law enforcement, the military, and the intelligence community as well as emergency managers, private security, and those in the cyber security and information technology fields. Our courses feature small classes (typically 10 to 12 students per seminar-based class) and we utilize a highly effective ‘case study’ approach that resonates with practitioners.
Our graduate programs qualify for GI Bill and Veterans benefits, as well as various scholarships and forms of financial aid. Active duty law enforcement officers and members of the military may be eligible for a substantial one-third tuition scholarship.
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If you need clarification of any issue or would like additional information, please visit our web site atwww.liu.edu/homeland for a thorough review of all program details. You should also feel free to contact Director of Admissions Andrea Borra (Andrea.Borra@liu.edu, 631-287-8010) or Admissions Counselor Martin Steiger (Martin.Steiger@liu.edu, 631-287-8236), both of whom can provide complete details about the new program.
You, or interested members of your agency, can also contact me directly at Vincent.Henry@liu.edu or 631-259-9074.
