美国的电网，金融服务和其他关键基础设施与依赖于计算机支持的命令和控制系统的网络运营密不可分。这些系统的完整性受到损害对国家安全的威胁已广为人知。因此，仅靠这种系统是不够的，还必须确保它们。一个安全的系统通过身份验证，参考监视以及合理的设计和实现，展现出机密性，完整性和可用性的传统属性。保证系统是一种安全系统，其属性已得到验证或证明。锡拉丘兹大学（Syracuse University）及其工程与计算机科学学院都将网络安全和保证视为其研究和教育使命的重要优势和重点领域。锡拉丘兹大学（Syracuse Uni
The United States' electrical-power grid, financial services, and other critical infrastructure are inextricably intertwined with cyber operations that depend on computer-enabled command-and-control systems. The threat to national security by the compromise of these systems' integrity is well publicized. Therefore, it is insufficient for such systems to be merely secure, they must also be assured. A secure system exhibits the traditional properties of confidentiality, integrity, and availability through authentication, reference monitoring, and sound design and implementation. An assured system is a secure system whose properties are verified or proven. Both Syracuse University and its College of Engineering and Computer Science have identified cyber security and assurance as important strengths and focus areas for their research and educational missions. Syracuse University has been designated by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE) since 2001 and as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research (CAE-R) since 2009. Building on SU's strengths to help meet the national need, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) has introduced the Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) in Cybersecurity.