Dept. Cyber security & forensic computing
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Overview
The cyber threat landscape is ever evolving, and cyber security needs to be considered as a continuous effort to enable better protection, detection and mitigation of attacks on individual, corporate or national levels. Study of Cyber Security introduces the concepts and terminologies of the latest cyber threat landscape and enables a better understanding of cyber security.
Student Learning Outcomes
- SO-1: Analyze a complex computing problem and apply principles of computing and other relevant disciplines to identify solutions.
- SO-2: Design, implement, and evaluate a computing-based solution to meet a given set of computing requirements in the context of the program’s discipline.
- SO-3: Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts.
- SO-4: Recognize professional responsibilities and make informed judgments in computing practice based on legal and ethical principles.
- SO-5: Function effectively as a member or leader of a team engaged in activities appropriate to the program’s discipline.
- SO-6: Apply security principles and practices to maintain operations in the presence of risks and threats.
- SO-7: Apply qualitative or quantitative study, investigative, and research methods and techniques independently and collaboratively across a wide spectrum of current and emerging cybersecurity topics.
- SO-8: Explain cybersecurity and forensics foundations, principles, concepts, procedures, methodologies, operations, policies, techniques and technologies.
Program Educational Objectives
- PEO 1: CSFC graduates take practical and concrete initiatives to acquire cyber security and forensics education and continuously grow as professionals ever-focused on improving their skillset and competencies.
- PEO 2: CSFC graduates draw on the versatility of their experiences to contribute positively, ethically and respectfully, to the world around them, using their cyber security skillset only as a force for good.
- PEO 3: CSFC graduates use their highly developed skills in research and enquiry to identify and creatively tackle real-world problems.
- PEO 4: CSFC graduates take a hands-on approach to problem solving by utilizing the practical and theoretical skillset they have acquired over the course of their education.
- PEO 5: CSFC graduates build strong professional relationships and work efficiently with others to achieve a common goal.
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Career Opportunities
- Cybersecurity Architecture and Engineering
- Cybersecurity Automation
- Cybersecurity Governance, Compliance & Risk Management
- Cybersecurity Defensive Operations
- Cybersecurity Defensive Operations
- Cybersecurity Executive Leadership
- Cybersecurity Network Operations
- Cybersecurity Program Management
- Cybersecurity Strategic Planning & Policy Development
- Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence
- Digital Forensics
- Incident Response
- Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
- Physical, Embedded & Industrial Control Systems Security
- Reverse Engineering
- Cryptography
- Secure Software Design
- Privacy & Trust Engineering
- AI for Cyber Security