Professional Science Master's Degree in Cybersecurity from CSUSM

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"Demand for cybersecurity professionals over the past five years grew 3.5 times faster than demand for other IT jobs and about 12 times faster than for all other jobs." - Burning Glass Technology

CSUSM is pleased to announce the launch of the Master of Science in Cybersecurity; a Professional Science Master's Degree to meet this workforce need. The goal of the program is to train an expertly skilled workforce to fulfill the immenent needs of the emerging and evolving Cyber Security industry.

The curriculum will prepare students to:

Adapt to changes and to analyze and solve problems
Conduct risk analyses for implementing information security solutions including performing information security risk assessment, financial/profit analyses, ROI; governance issue assessment, regulations/compliance/legal eithical issue assessment, and out-sourcing evaluation
Assess and put security decisions into operation
Analyze and choose security architectures and network protocols in relation to security
Develop secure software
Evaluate and choose encryption algorithms
Perform offensive security (i.e. ethical hacking)
Perform vulnerability assessment of networks, operating systems and software
Perform intrusion detection
Distinguishing Features

Designed for working adults with classes in the evening
Program is 38 units and can be completed part-time in 5 semesters
A semester-long "culminating experience" will include onsite experience within cybersecurity industry
Cohort design guarantees classes are available as needed
Hands on exercises
No prior knowledge of cybersecurity required
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