Master of Science Cybersecurity

Artificial Intelligence Engineering

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineering concentration provides students with foundational knowledge and expertise in both Artificial Intelligenfice (AI) and Cybersecurity and trains students on cutting-edge AI developments in the domain of Cybersecurity. This program is uniquely crafted to cover foundational concepts in AI, as it applies to social engineering, secure software development, AI-assisted network hardening, and next-generation multi-agent cybersecurity challenges. The program will allow professionals to develop and employ modern AI tools to help solve cybersecurity challenges, protect infrastructure, detect malware and bad actors as well as assist cybersecurity responses and investigations. It will also equip future cybersecurity and AI engineers to develop robust adversarial tests of detection, protection, and predictive modeling of future cybersecurity threats.

Networking and Infrastructure

The Network Security concentration focuses on the network infrastructure and network security management aspects of information security. This concentration will provide in-depth coverage of network security infrastructure technologies such as firewalls, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), vulnerability assessment tools, as well as overall security infrastructure engineering and design.

Computer Security

The Computer Security concentration focuses on fundamental security topics that arise in the design, analysis, and implementation of distributed systems. This concentration provides in-depth coverage of the theory and application of identity, authentication, access control, auditing, assessment and prevention of software vulnerabilities, and cryptography, in the context of modern enterprise-scale and web-based systems.

Governance, Risk Management and Compliance

The Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance concentration focuses on enterprise-level information security risk management, IT audit, and regulatory compliance. This cross-disciplinary concentration focuses on how to:

• develop an information security program;
• assess security risk in business processes;
• identify and implement a system of controls for security governance and regulatory compliance;
• plan and conduct IT audits; and
• develop business continuity and disaster recovery plans.