Software Engineering Institute

Earning a CERT Cybersecurity Engineering and Software Assurance Professional Certificate prepares you to develop, acquire, and protect systems that must exist in environments where they interact with multiple systems, some of which are untrustworthy. You learn to navigate the continual change and evolving threats and risks in these environments. You get access to the most current knowledge and expertise, and develop skills to protect your software-reliant systems.

The certificate program teaches you to recognize the knowledge areas critical to software assurance. By earning this certificate, you demonstrate that you know how to identify security requirements early in the development or acquisition lifecycle, at the same time as you identify functional requirements. You learn how to monitor security risks as they change throughout the lifecycle and across the supply chain, and you learn about the complexity and risks in your supply chain and how to deal with them. Completing this certificate program proves that you understand the gaps in supply chain risk management and know how to develop an acquisition strategy to drive your organization’s supply chain structure.