M.S. in Cybersecurity: Mission and Goals

Program Mission:

The mission of the Master’s in Cybersecurity is to prepare students for employment in various cybersecurity-related fields by ensuring the students are exposed to the many different disciplines and technologies required to protect organizations and governments and other critical infrastructures. 

Program Goals:

• Identify and articulate organizational cybersecurity risks.
• Establish, manage, and evaluate an organization’s cybersecurity foundation.
• Develop an effective internal and/or external communication strategy.

Program Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain current standards and practices in cybersecurity and how they are applied to cyber exposures and threats, including systems design, methods, and techniques aimed at prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery from cyber-attacks and intrusion. 

2. Develop a risk-based approach to managing operational factors associated with cybersecurity. 

3. Explain operating system security architecture concepts, including integrity and access control based security models and design, kernel protection, trusted platform module, and security auditing. 

4. Discuss the importance of operating system, embedded system and application testing for errors, and vulnerability and defect testing methodologies 

5. Assess the importance of real-time internal hardware and software intelligence and the steps an organization must take to develop a comprehensive risk management strategy and policy. 

6. Apply communication techniques to inform management of the need for IT Risk Assessment and Management procedures. Apply communication techniques to inform management of the need for IT Risk Assessment and Management procedures.