Cyber Threat Intelligence & Defense (BS)

The Cyber Threat Intelligence & Defense bachelor’s degree program is designed to fill a critical and growing need for cyber threat intelligence and defense personnel in the public and private sector. Students completing this curriculum should have the understanding of incident response techniques that detect, scope and respond to internal and external intelligence. This intelligence is used to enable network and system defenders to establish protocols that decrease the cyber attacker’s likelihood of success with each ensuing intrusion attempt.

Upon completion of the program, graduates are expected to demonstrate the ability to:

Operate and communicate effectively in working with stakeholders at all levels.
Function effectively on teams to accomplish a common goal.
Synthesize aspects of professional, ethical, legal, security and social issues and responsibilities in the area of cyber operations.
Apply current techniques, skills and tools necessary for computer and cyber practices.
Measure the performance of security systems within an enterprise level information system infrastructure.
Analyze the local and global impact of computing on individuals, organizations and society.
Analyze a problem, identify possible threats, and define the computing requirements appropriate to solve cyber operations issues.
The focus of this program is to educate and train the new wave of cyber specialist that can track, analyze and counter digital security threats. This form of intelligence is a blend of physical reconnaissance and defense with modern information technology techniques. Proactive cyber defense is the direction of the future, the gathering of information about trends and behaviors of adversaries in anticipation to opposing an attack against computers and networks, is critical to mitigating operational risk.