Cybersecurity Degree

This course provides first-hand, practical experience in one or more foreign countries. Students will learn about economic, cultural, social, and political structures that influence business practices and relationships. Students will apply what they have learned in other graduate-level courses from their program of study in a project connected with a global or non-USA-based organization or industry. This course requires the student to participate in a Marilyn Davies College of Business-sponsored study tour of a selected foreign country/region.

This course is designed to provide students with a broad knowledge of international risk management exposures, alternative and traditional risk mitigation techniques, enterprise risk management for a global enterprise, and analytical tools and skills needed for risk management. The objective is to provide students with a solid foundation of basic concepts, tools, and techniques of making decisions under uncertainty in the highly dynamic international business environment to create value

Survey of the field of human resources management with emphasis on security management. Topics include human resources planning, recruiting and selection, performance appraisal, compensation and reward systems, training and development, and employee relations. Regulatory and legal aspects of human resources management will be integrated throughout the course.

This course is an introduction to managerial decision making from the perspective of the security professional. Students will learn how to apply qualitative and quantitative decision models and techniques to solve managerial decision problems. Topics will include behavioral and organizational aspects of decision making, qualitative decision models, spreadsheet decision modeling, descriptive statistical analysis, forecasting models, and decision making under risk and uncertainty.

Students will learn how sound governance, ethical principles, and compliance with regulatory standards guide the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and programs to address threats to an organization’s security.

Prerequisite: Approval from the Program Director.

This course presents students the opportunity to explore the intricacies of Information Security Audit processes and practices. Beginning with the fundamentals and progressing through advanced techniques, students will learn to differentiate between acceptable and non-acceptable artifacts when used as evidence. Students will also be presented with the audit ecosystem from both the internal and external perspectives. In addition, students will explore privacy laws in the United States and their impact on the protection of individual and organizational privacy, and the requirements of compliance with these laws.

Prerequisite: Approval from the Program Director.

This course guides learners through a comprehensive research process focusing on both the core tenets of security management and an area of specialization. Learners will progress through the stages and milestones of applied research related to their program and intended careers.

This course focuses on the foundations of a risk based cyber security program. Students will focus on applying threat, vulnerability and risk analysis in order to manage an organization’s IT security program.

This course focuses on treating an organization’s data as an asset that must be protected, ways to protect that data as an asset and the impact of data breach and/or theft of that data.

This course focuses on the security risks related to an organization’s enterprise network connections to the external web and implementing technology to mitigate the identified security risks.

This course is a survey of major security threats and methods for mitigating those threats in contemporary settings. The course activities will include review and analysis of recent security threats and/or events and identification of available strategies to mitigate the risk posed by those threats. Students will learn how to analyze a wide variety of threat scenarios, identify vulnerabilities, and determine which risk mitigation strategies work best for a given situation; and they will learn how threats and strategies for mitigating them are evolving over time..

This course examines the role of business continuity as part of a comprehensive, threat based, risk management strategy by looking at standards, strategies, crisis management, employee orientation, plan development and testing.

This course is the capstone for the Cyber Security concentration. It focuses on identifying and using up-to-date intelligence in order to perform risk analysis, continuous monitoring and threat assessments to maintain security and reduce system vulnerabilities on a day to day basis.

Prerequisite: Approval from the Program Director.

This course provides students the opportunity to experience and practice Security Management concepts learned in class in real world business operations. Students will acquire or improve their competency in several aspects of Security Management. Students actively engage in security projects within an organization, and feedback received from the employer will form part of the overall learning experience.

Intensive individual study, under the guidance of a Security Management faculty member, of a body of knowledge or research topic, with an applied focus. This course may be repeated for credit as the topics vary and may be applied to the degree with the approval of the Program Director.