Master in Cybersecurity Management

Program Overview

Master in Cybersecurity Management

Overview

The Master in Cybersecurity Management is a program completely taught in English designed for participants who wish to master the technical and business knowledge and skills to manage organizational cyber risk. Interactive lessons by academic and industry experts provide fundamental technical knowledge in addition to managerial and leadership skills. Program participants will have the opportunity to earn two industry-recognized certifications to demonstrate their expertise.

Program Content

This master delivers up-to-date knowledge for organizational leaders to excel in the governance and management of their IT risk, security, and compliance responsibilities. The program represents cybersecurity as an enterprise-wide risk management challenge, impacting technical, organizational and governance responsibilities.

Our interdisciplinary program provides participants with the necessary technical foundations, allowing participants without a technical background to enroll. During the program, participants will have the opportunity to earn two industry-recognized certifications: the CompTIA Security+ and a second CompTIA certification aligned with the participant’s career goals.

Key Program Advantages

• No need to have a technology background to enroll. You will learn the foundational technical skills to understand the nature of cyberthreats and how to defend against them.
• Develop the knowledge, skills and abilities(KSAs) to embark on a technical, analytics, or managerial focused career in cybersecurity. Regardless of your background and interests, this program will prepare you to steer your career in the direction you want.
• Earn industry-recognized certifications to set you apart from the crowd. Each participant will have the opportunity to earn two CompTIA certifications as part of the program.

Master Degree

Upon successful completion of the program (120 ECTS), students get the State-recognized ‘Grade de Master’ for this Postgraduate program (“DESMI – Diplôme d’Études Spécialisées en Management International”) , with the specialization “Cybersecurity Management”.

The degree is delivered by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and registered with the French RNCP (the National Registry of Professional Certification) under the number RNCP37390.

Career Opportunities

This program is a good fit if you are interested in working as, for example:

• Cyber Incident Responder
• Threat Analyst
• Cyber Forensics Expert
• Information Assurance Analyst
• Cybercrime Investigator
• Cyber Legal Advisor
• IT Auditor
• Cyber Ops Manager
• Cybersecurity Specialist

Class Profile

Technical skills are not the most important skills sought in today’s market. In fact, employers indicate that skills such as problem solving (38%) and communication (32%) are as important as cybersecurity certifications (32%) and relevant cybersecurity experience (31%). This is because security roles are not solely technical today, but involve analysis, oversight, management, and governance – the types of skills that students develop in business schools. In fact, many cybersecurity roles don’t require a strong technical background.

Candidates do not need to have technical skills – as we will provide students with the foundational technology competences needed to build their knowledge of cybersecurity – and may just have an academic background in fields like:

• General Business
• Auditing
• Risk Management
• Regulatory Compliance
• Human Resources/Human Capital Management
• Law
• Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement

In addition, Cybersecurity today is now a field with great diversity. Women represent 32% of cybersecurity specialists under the age of 30 and 49% are ethnic minorities. Half of all cybersecurity professionals under 30 come from non-IT backgrounds.

Director’s Foreword

Dr. Jennifer L. ZIEGELMAYER

Academic Director, Professor of Information Systems

There is a common misperception that cybersecurity is all about protecting your organization from hackers. While that’s part of it, there are many other risks that need to be managed from electrical outages to floods, to outdated software, to employees accidentally deleting or sharing confidential data. That’s why it important for cybersecurity professionals to have more than just technical skills. They need to understand legal ramifications, compliance regulations, operational logistics, and have leadership skills. Combining foundational technology skills with risk assessment, legal, and management knowledge, this program prepares participants to protect their organizations from the myriad risks that exist today and to anticipate the risks of tomorrow.