The Information Security and Cybersecurity concentration is designed for students interested in careers in cybersecurity with an emphasis on information and data integrity and security. This concentration provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to understand cybersecurity’s conceptual, practical, theoretical, and policy underpinnings in the context of information and data life cycles. The program will prepare students to apply their knowledge and skills to assess and recognize evolving security vulnerabilities, threats, attacks, and risks to information and data; implement effective policies and governance frameworks; and manage their implementations to mitigate the threats to ensure information and data integrity.
The program and courses in the curriculum will cover topics including information and data security applications, ethics, privacy, accountability, bias, copyright and intellectual property, defamation, confidential information, electronic communication, compliance, audit, legal issues related to privacy and security, and advanced topics such as cybersecurity tools and controls (administrative, physical, and technical), unauthorized access, encryption/decryption, authentication, anonymity, ethical hacking, and security and risk analysis.
