Program Overview

Program Overview

The university program in cybersecurity and privacy is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity and privacy mechanisms, standards, and state-of-the-art capabilities. The program requires 30 credits and is delivered on-campus.

Program Details

The program focuses on describing potential cyber attacks and the actors that might perform them, and applying cyber defense methods to prepare a system to repel attacks. Students will perform security reviews of applications, systems, and infrastructure, and design and implement system, network, and infrastructure-level solutions to ensure the security and privacy of communications and data against specific security threats.

What You Will Learn

• Cryptography and Security: Understand the difference between symmetric key and public key cryptography approaches, select appropriate symmetric and public key cryptography protocols for a given application, and develop an efficient implementation of a cryptographic protocol based on a Discrete Logarithm Problem, RSA (Factoring) Problem, or Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem.
• Security and Privacy in Computing: Understand the various models to evaluate the security of computer systems, interpret security guarantees, and assess the level of security provided by a cryptographic protocol.
• Network Protocols Security: Identify the appropriate security primitives that should be used to achieve specific security goals for communication over insecure networks, analyze the security of the main mechanisms used on the internet to secure communication between computer systems at various network layers, and describe common attacks against wired and wireless network protocols using standard terminology.

Admissions and Curriculum

The program requires 30 credits, and students can explore the course listing and prerequisites to understand the program's structure.

Career Prospects

The cybersecurity profession is projected to grow 36.5 percent by 2022, with common job titles including:

• Information Security Analyst
• Technical Specialist
• Software Engineer Top employers in the field include:
• Akkadian Labs
• Celgene Corp.
• Flashtalking Inc.
• Nokia (formerly Alcatel-lucent)

Core Faculty

The program's core faculty includes:

• Borcea, Cristian, Professor
• Curtmola, Reza, Professor
• Hamidli, Fuad, Senior University Lecturer
• Mani, Kumar, Senior University Lecturer
• Mili, Ali, Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
• Neamtiu, Iulian, Professor
• Oria, Vincent, Professor
• Raza, Asad, Senior University Lecturer
• Rohloff, Kurt, Affiliated Faculty
• Sharma, Shantanu, Assistant Professor