Concentration in Cybersecurity

The Graduate Concentration in Cybersecurity provides graduate students within the Hankamer School of Business exposure to ‘best practice’ concepts, techniques and methodologies critical to insuring data security in corporate/organizational environments. Furthermore, it is targeted towards addressing recent calls from the academic literature and professional journals to treat cybersecurity as a strategic organizational function rather than a back-office technical function. The purpose of the Concentration is to provide business graduate students with the necessary skills to develop and/or manage organizational processes, strategies, methodologies, and technologies designed to mitigate risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational data and information-related resources for preparation to take cybersecurity related management positions in industry and/or consulting practices.

Admission into the concentration is contingent upon admission into the MBA, MSIS, MAcc, MTax, or MSEco programs.

The Concentration requirements are as follows:

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
MIS Courses
MIS 5335	Information Systems Analysis and Design	3
MIS 5340	Database Management Systems	3
MIS 5355	Management of Information Systems	3
Cybersecurity Courses 1
ISEC 5305	Seminar in Information Security Foundations	3
ISEC 5320	Cybersecurity Technology Factors	3
Select two courses from the following:		6
ISEC 5310	Cybersecurity Human Factors: Ethics, Integrity, Practices, Policies, and Procedures
ISEC 5330	Cybersecurity Policy and Planning
ISEC 5340	Cyber Warfare, Threats, Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures
Total Hours		21

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Substitutions may be made with prior Advisor Approval.