Cybersecurity Program

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Delivery Options:
Online
Degree Type:
Associate of Applied Science Degree
Program Length Once Accepted To Program:
4 Semesters

Why Pursue Cybersecurity?

The Cybersecurity degree prepares you for a career as a system technician/system analyst with a focus on the skills required to understand and conceptualize, design, procure and/or build secure information technology systems. The program is designed with maximum flexibility as you can decide each day whether to attend classes face-to-face, live online with the instructor and your fellow students or online at a time convenient for you.

Graduates are prepared to:

Securely Provision

  • Conceptualize, design, procure, and/or builds secure information technology (IT) systems, with responsibility for aspects of system and/or network development.

Operate and Maintain

  • Provides the support, administration, and maintenance necessary to ensure effective and efficient information technology (IT) system performance and security.

Oversee and Govern

  • Provides leadership, management, direction, or development and advocacy so an organization may effectively conduct cybersecurity work.

Protect and Defend

  • Identifies, analyzes, and mitigate threats to internal information technology (IT) systems and/or networks.

Analyze

  • Performs highly-specialized review and evaluation of incoming cybersecurity information to determine its usefulness for intelligence.

Collect and Operate

  • Provides specialized denial and deception operations and collection of cybersecurity information that may be used to develop intelligence.

Investigate

  • Investigates cybersecurity events or crimes related to information technology (IT) systems, networks, and digital evidence.

Outcomes are based on the National Institute for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Outcomes

Types of courses

ITS 280 Computer Repair and Maintenance
ITS 164 Networking Fundamentals
ITS 245 Computer Forensics
ITS 222 Enterprise Security

Career Opportunities

Steve Robinett' Intro to Programming course, spring 2023.

Additional Program Information

Get to Know the Cybersecurity Faculty

Dmitri Kharchevnikov

Faculty

Steve Robinett

Computer Science Faculty & Department Chair

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