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 cyber security 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 cyber-security related management positions in industry and/or consulting practices.

Admission to the Cybersecurity Concentration is contingent on admission into the Master of Business Administration and the Master of Science in Information Systems degrees. Additional admissions requirements can be found under the Business School Admissions.

The Degree requirements are as follows:

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Required Framework Courses
BUS 5401	Business Frameworks	4
Required Core Courses
ACC 5300	Accounting Tools for Management Decision Making	3
BUS 5101	Focus Firm I	1
BUS 5111	Professional Career Development for First Semester Graduate Students	1
BUS 5112	Professional Career Development for Second Semester Graduate Students	1
BUS 5385	Strategic Management	3
BUS 5390	Management Communication	3
ECO 5340	Economic Tools for Management Decision Making	3
FIN 5360	Seminar in Corporate Finance	3
MGT 5310	Management of Organizational Behavior	3
MGT 5320	Manufacturing and Service Operations	3
MGT 5325	Leadership in the Global Marketplace	3
MKT 5310	Seminar in Marketing Strategy	3
QBA 5330	Business Analytics for Decision Making	3
CyberSecurity Courses
ISEC 5330	Cybersecurity Policy and Planning
Select two courses from the following:		6
ISEC 5310	Cybersecurity Human Factors: Ethics, Integrity, Practices, Policies, and Procedures
ISEC 5320	Cybersecurity Technology Factors
ISEC 5340	Cyber Warfare, Threats, Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures
Required MSIS Courses (Non-thesis)
As a part of the MSIS curriculum, all MSIS students are required to demonstrate competency in four core content areas: Programming (MIS 5301 is required and any one of the following: MIS 5315, MIS 5317 or MIS 5322) Systems Analysis and Design (MIS 5335) Database (MIS 5340) Information Security (MIS 5305) This competency may be shown by successful completion of specific courses as a part of their matriculation in the MSIS program, or by successful completion of these courses in previous undergraduate information systems or computer science programs:
MIS 5355	Management of Information Systems	3
MIS 5301	Seminar in Object-Oriented Business Programming	3
MIS 5315	NET Systems Development	3
or MIS 5317	Seminar in Java Development
MIS 5335	Information Systems Analysis and Design	3
MIS 5340	Database Management Systems	3
ISEC 5305	Seminar in Information Security Foundations	3
Other MBA Requirements
1-hour internship required for students without 2 years of full-time work experience		1
Students with more than 2 years can choose to take an elective.
Students who do not have an undergraduate degree in Business Administration will be required to take the following:
BL 5104	Business Foundations - Business Law	(1)
Total Hours		62