Program Overview

Cybersecurity Administration

Program Overview

The Cybersecurity Administration, B.P.S. program is validated by the National Security Agency (NSA) and prepares students to meet the urgent need of protecting information systems. The program provides essential skills for managing the people and technologies that protect information, information systems, and infrastructures.

Program Features

• Bachelor of Professional Studies undergraduate degree, 120 credits
• Provide essential skills for managing the people and technologies that protect information, information systems, and infrastructures.
• Understand network setup, database coding and scripting, network protocols, and systems administration.
• Evaluate organizational system vulnerabilities and matters of information security to stakeholders by employing technological, analytical, communication, ingenuity, and critical thinking skills.
• Develop the analytical and critical thinking skills necessary to assess risks, solve complex problems, and improve security policies and protocols.
• Become detail-oriented and creative in detecting, responding to, and fixing problems and flaws in systems and networks.

Program Details

• 100% Online
• 6 Start Dates a Year
• 8-Week Courses
• Transfer Up to 90 Credits
• Study Part Time
• Blend of Asynchronous and Synchronous Learning

Learning Outcomes

• Describe and analyze components of a network, its hardware and software.
• Evaluate organizational system vulnerabilities and matters of information security to stakeholders by employing technological, analytical, communication, ingenuity, and critical thinking skills.
• Create successful solutions for technical and security concerns while balancing business organization concerns.
• Apply codes of conduct and ethics in relationship to security systems and cybersecurity plan.
• Identify, analyze, and apply policies and procedures to system weaknesses.
• Formulate cybersecurity strategies and policies for both short-term and long-term.

Career Opportunities

• Information Security
• Networking Setup
• Core Database, Coding and Scripting
• Auditing
• Network Protocols
• Systems Administration
• Health Care
• Finance and Accounting

Sample Courses

• CYB 334 – Security in the Networked Environment for Professional Studies
• CYB 336 – Leading Issues in Information Security for Professional Studies
• CYB 425 – Enterprise Risk Management for Professional Studies
• KNM 311 – Safeguarding Knowledge Management and Codification Data
• CYB 402 – Digital Forensics for Professional Studies

Related Programs

• Cybersecurity Administration Certificate
• Computer Programming, B.P.S.