BS.CYBERSECURITY - Cybersecurity (BS)
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Program Title
Cybersecurity (BS)
Program Description
The Cybersecurity program is designed for students with the desire to hone their technical skills and understanding of information security threats. This program places a strong emphasis on cybersecurity management and governance.
Cybersecurity majors will develop the skills and ethical frameworks to view information and the security of information from perspectives as users, managers, policy makers, and hackers. These various perspectives, in addition to some technical skills developed in the program, will assure that students leave the program with the ability to identify potential threats and use and manage technical skills with ethical integrity to protect various communities of users within which they work and live.
In the end, the cybersecurity major is designed to prepare graduates to establish, implement, and oversee a cybersecurity structure for an organization. Student learn how to create a security approach that combines the ethical use of technology, governance, and compliance. Majors gain advanced knowledge in organizational structures, communication, operational business processes, and the legal framework for cybersecurity policy.
Coursework in the cybersecurity degree (management and policy) features emerging topics in the field. In addition, industry leaders and employers both advise and are part of the faculty to make sure AU's cybersecurity programs are covering emerging areas that are relevant to career growth. Cybersecurity graduates can be found in numerous jobs and industries including informational security analysts, computer and information systems managers, data compliance officers, computer support specialists, information technology managers, public policy makers, software developers, web developers, and many more. Success in many of the preceding careers is achieved by double majoring with computer science, business, public health, political science and public policy, psychology, or criminal justice. Graduates with double majors who combine these deeper areas of focus with the interdisciplinary cybersecurity degree emphasizing management, policy, governance, and ethics will have a competitive edge in the marketplace upon graduation.
Cybersecurity majors will develop the skills and ethical frameworks to view information and the security of information from perspectives as users, managers, policy makers, and hackers. These various perspectives, in addition to some technical skills developed in the program, will assure that students leave the program with the ability to identify potential threats and use and manage technical skills with ethical integrity to protect various communities of users within which they work and live.
In the end, the cybersecurity major is designed to prepare graduates to establish, implement, and oversee a cybersecurity structure for an organization. Student learn how to create a security approach that combines the ethical use of technology, governance, and compliance. Majors gain advanced knowledge in organizational structures, communication, operational business processes, and the legal framework for cybersecurity policy.
Coursework in the cybersecurity degree (management and policy) features emerging topics in the field. In addition, industry leaders and employers both advise and are part of the faculty to make sure AU's cybersecurity programs are covering emerging areas that are relevant to career growth. Cybersecurity graduates can be found in numerous jobs and industries including informational security analysts, computer and information systems managers, data compliance officers, computer support specialists, information technology managers, public policy makers, software developers, web developers, and many more. Success in many of the preceding careers is achieved by double majoring with computer science, business, public health, political science and public policy, psychology, or criminal justice. Graduates with double majors who combine these deeper areas of focus with the interdisciplinary cybersecurity degree emphasizing management, policy, governance, and ethics will have a competitive edge in the marketplace upon graduation.