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Cybersecurity Program

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

You'll gain the skills 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

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Types of courses

Course Code Course Title
ITS 280 Computer Repair and Maintenance
ITS 164 Networking Fundamentals
ITS 245 Computer Forensics
ITS 222 Enterprise Security
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Career Opportunities

Some of the jobs you will be qualified for upon completion of the cybersecurity program include: cybersecurity analyst, network security specialist, IT support specialist, information security technician, incident response analyst and security operations center technician.

Job Title Average Wage Annual Job Openings Expected Growth
Information Security Analyst MT: $79,200/yr
US: $102,600/yr		 MT: No data available
US: 16,300		 MT: No data available
US: 33%
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So, my husband is military, and I need a job that can travel. Cybersecurity is great. The job market is great. The pay is great. I feel like I can find a job anywhere.

Megin Bowshier
Cybersecurity Program Student

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Get to Know the Cybersecurity Faculty

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Dmitri Kharchevnikov

Faculty
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Steve Robinett

Computer Science Faculty & Department Chair
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Cybersecurity Program In The News

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Great Falls College Faculty Publish Breakthrough Study on Automating AI Security Governance

Two computer technology faculty members at Great Falls College, Dmitri Kharchevnikov and Steve Robinett, have published new peer‑reviewed research that could reshape how organizations secure and govern their rapidly expanding AI systems….
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Dmitri Kharchevnikov, Computer Programming and Cybersecurity Instructor, brings a unique global perspective to Great Falls College. Originally from the outskirts of Moscow, he earned a master’s degree in biology before transitioning into IT, where he worked for more than a decade. After moving to the United States in 2019, Dmitri now shares his passion for technology with students, drawing on his own career transition and online learning experience to support the next generation of IT professionals….
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