Cybersecurity
The Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity prepares students with the necessary skills and competencies for job titles such as cybersecurity forensic specialist, security analyst, security auditors, security consultants, IT manager, information technologies officer, security trainer, and IT systems designer. These skills include the investigation of various cybersecurity resources, tools, and methods to strategically analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate countermeasures for effective cybersecurity defense.
Program Learning Outcomes
Graduates of the cybersecurity program will be able to:
- Understand the network design, protocols, operations, and management of wired and wireless communications.
- Understand cybersecurity, security risks, data privacy, and the mitigation of data breaches.
- Develop strategies and plans for security architecture consisting of tools, procedures, and technologies to detect and prevent network intrusion and hacking, and to design effective cybersecurity countermeasures.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate information technology effectively.
- Demonstrate an understanding of ethics and professionalism, as related to information technology and cybersecurity.
- Demonstrate the ability to evaluate ethical principles in business and apply them to organizational decision making.
- Recognize the need for, and ability to engage in, continuing professional developments in IT and the cybersecurity world.
Highly Recommended Courses
CIS 105 Professional Presentations: Microsoft PowerPoint (1 cr)
CIS 111 Excel (2 crs)
CIS 122 Microsoft Word (2 crs)