Program Testimonials
Duke University’s Executive Cybersecurity Certificate Programs are shaped by the experiences and outcomes of the leaders who attend. From seasoned executives to rising cybersecurity professionals, participants across our programs share a common goal: to strengthen their strategic impact and leadership in an increasingly complex digital landscape. The testimonials below reflect the real-world value of our curriculum, faculty, and community and highlight our suite of executive programs empower professionals to think differently, lead confidently, and drive meaningful change within their organizations.
These programs provide intensive education with industry leaders in academia. There's a lot of interaction that takes place where the attendees and the faculty and speakers, are providing information on some of the latest threats that we're seeing in cybersecurity. So in this program, the CISO certificate program, we've got, attendees from Australia, Tanzania, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, and all over the US. And these emerging leaders or leaders, really bring a lot to the program.
- Art Ehuan
Executive Director of the Masters of Engineering and Cybersecurity program
... This program, the way it is structured, has given me a lot of additional tools in my tool-belt to be able to go back and advocate for doing things the way they should be done.
- Randy Bice
Cyber Engineer Manager
What's really great for me specifically is that they've taught me in a way that makes sense to me as the CEO. I get to come in and I get to understand what they're going through so that I can take that information and understand it at a level where I can make decisions at an enterprise risk level.
- Shaun Garcia
CEO Value-Based Care (VBC)
... Duke has a really strong network of cybersecurity professionals. And so what I liked about that is there's multiple levels of people from top to bottom in different areas within cybersecurity. And I think when you are a cybersecurity leader, you have to know how to work with people with varying expertise ...
- Kat Pierce-Cloutier
Director of Governance
You see these great professors who are also practitioners [and] they give you two sides of the coin to where you're understanding book knowledge, but then you're also understanding practical knowledge.
- Nick Brezinski
Director of Digital & Information Security Networking
