MBA in Cybersecurity
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The cybersecurity concentration prepares you to protect organizations at a time when digital threats are a major challenge to business success. You’ll learn to identify risks, manage security systems and respond to incidents, while understanding how cybersecurity supports overall business goals.
Through courses in cybersecurity basic, security management and advanced topics like risk management, governance and incident response, you’ll build skills to keep important data safe and maintain business operations. Whether you want to become a cybersecurity manager, security analyst, risk consultant or compliance officer, this concentration gives you the knowledge to succeed in one of today’s fastest-growing career fields.
Cybersecurity Concentration Electives
This introductory course provides a holistic view on the security aspects of the cyber space ecosystem. The course introduces students to cybersecurity foundations and cybersecurity first principles. Topics include CIA (confidentiality, integrity and availability) and AAA (authentication, authorization and accounting) framework, threats and adversaries, vulnerabilities and risk management, security life-cycle, data security, access control and security models, privacy, legal and ethical issues.
This course addresses complex issues in measuring and managing security within an organization and plans to improve the security posture. Topics include security leadership and management, security life-cycle management, information assurance standards and compliance, security governance, policy & information security program development, incident response and risk management, cybersecurity ethics, and privacy policies, laws and regulations.
Prerequisite: Take CY-626
This course will provide lectures on vulnerability and compliance management for multiple systems and perform hands-on experience with Tenable Nessus (one of the industry-leading vulnerability and compliance scanning tools). It will provide students with a working knowledge and understanding of vulnerability and compliance management, and expose students to new system and application vulnerabilities that are identified on a daily basis and demonstrates the techniques for managing them. The purpose of this course is to teach students how to identify vulnerabilities, plan to remediate them, and track to make sure they do not return.
Prerequisite: Take CY-626