Wish your professional team could have a QUEST experience? Maybe they can…
Have you heard about the new Graduate Certificate of Professional Studies in Cybersecurity Leadership that the University of Maryland College Park is launching this fall? Like QUEST, this program draws on the strengths of the Robert H. Smith School of Business and the A. James Clark of Engineering. Participants in the three month program will also benefit from teaching from Public Policy and Maryland Cyber Center faculty. The program equips people to work in the business of cybersecurity, helping information technology specialists to develop strategic thinking and leadership communications skills to supplement their cyber smarts. It is ideal for IT people who’d like to step away from the computer monitor to take on general management responsibilities. We hope that you may be interested in knowing more, and in enrolling a number of people from your teams.
Courses include: Systems Thinking and Design (taught by QUEST director Dr. Joe Bailey), Federal IT Acquisition, Cybersecurity Technology, ICT Supply Chain Risk Management and a highly experiential capstone. The directors of the program are Hart Rossman, Principle Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (former CTO at SAIC) and Smith faculty member Dr Sandor Boyson, Principal Investigator of the ICT SCRM Community Framework Development Project recently published by NIST.
The program begins with a bootcamp at our College Park campus on October 20, 2012 and the courses above will be supplemented by careers and clearance advice, plus sessions on leadership competencies ranging from innovation management to collaboration.
If you would like to know more about the program, please contact Liz Barron 301 405 5387 or lbarron@rhsmith.umd.edu. We anticipate an initial cohort of 20 students and are already working with defense and intelligence agencies and contractors to ensure a strong class for the fall. We very much hope to include friends of QUEST and look forward to working with you to see how the University of Maryland College Park can support your organization’s cybersecurity development needs.