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The growing number of cyberattacks on national and organizational information technology infrastructures highlight the rapidly growing demand for professionally trained experts of cybersecurity. The program is designed to prepare students for new careers in cybersecurity and working as professionals in the field to further advance their professional success.

• Interdisciplinary Curriculum: This degree program uses an interdisciplinary approach that draws on strong technical as well as relevant legal, policy, governance and management aspects needed to protect cyber infrastructure and information assets.
• Applied Knowledge and Skills: Gain applied cybersecurity knowledge and skills through hands-on learning and studying with recognized cybersecurity experts. The program culminates with a cybersecurity capstone project.
• Scholar-Practitioner Faculty: Study with professors who are leading cybersecurity experts and have strong professional and research backgrounds.
• Additional Credential: Earn an additional credential to advance your career by adding a certificate to your graduate course planning.
• High Job Placement Rate: Graduates of this program have assumed technical and leadership cybersecurity roles in the government and industry.
• On Campus and Fully Online: Complete your degree on campus, or fully online-anywhere/anytime.

Program Learning Outcomes

Through your course work, you will learn how to:

• Employ cyber prevention, defense, and mitigation tools and techniques against cyber threats to protect the enterprise-wide information infrastructure and assets.
• Protect data and information using modern cryptographic protocols, tools, and techniques.
• Assess and analyze software, hardware, and firmware vulnerabilities and implement appropriate prevention and mitigation measures.
• Apply digital forensics and cyber investigation techniques in response to cyberattacks against networks and computer systems.
• Apply cybersecurity risk management methodologies, policies, and frameworks to defend information systems and assets.
• Assess the human, legal, privacy, ethical, and governance aspects related to protecting critical cyber infrastructure.

Sample Courses:

These are some of the classes for students in this academic program:

Information Technology Governance

Microcomputing Technology

Network Technology & Management