The world's digital revolution continues. As organizations rely on the cloud and other digital networks to maintain their data, it is critical that sensitive information — from financial records to social security numbers — is kept stable and secure. Approximately 90% of businesses in the U.S. are targeted by malicious hackers each year and cybersecurity experts are essential in preventing these attacks.
The cybersecurity program is a collaboration between the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Humanities Departments to teach students the skills needed in this fast-paced and exciting field.
Through an interdisciplinary approach, cybersecurity majors will learn written and oral communication; critical thinking and analytical reasoning; complex problem solving; teamwork skills in diverse groups; creativity and innovation; quantitative reasoning; as well as awareness and understanding of cultural diversity, ethical decision making, and intercultural knowledge and competence in addition to the necessary technological skills.
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Program Objectives
- Increase knowledge of the social, psychological, ethical, and legal policies and requirements within the field of information assurance and cybersecurity.
- Promote engaged understandings of the philosophical, historical, ethical, behavioral, technological, legal, and policy dimensions related to cybersecurity through the use of case studies.
- Integrate and apply technical knowledge and skills across students’ interdisciplinary liberal arts and sciences curricula.
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Estimated cybersecurity jobs by 2021
Academic Experience
Students participate in the NSA Code Breaker Challenges, an online, challenge scenarios sponsored by the National Security Agency.
The 2019-2020 Challenge Scenario:
Tech savvy terrorists have developed a new suit of communication tools that are being used for attack planning. Recent intelligence suggests the terrorists are communicating via TerrorTime, a custom Android secure messaging application. Students mission is to:
- Reverse engineer and develop new exploitation capabilities against TerrorTime to enable message spoofing, user masquerades and message decryption.
- Discover and thwart future attack plans!
Security Analyst
Security analysts are expected to stay up-to-date on the latest intelligence, including the sophisticated methodologies that hackers in critic
Security Software Engineer
On the front lines of the war on cyber terror, a security software engineer develops and integrates innovative technology into applications to
Cryptographer
A cryptographer produces cutting edge techniques to secure private communications and are a critical component to successful cyber security op
