BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, CYBER AND NETWORK SECURITY MAJOR, CYBERSECURITY

Do you want to stop cyber-crime before it starts? If preventing, detecting, and battling digital crime is important to you, a career in cyber security may be the perfect fit and a cyber and network security degree could be a great way to start! As a cybersecurity specialist, you could be on the front lines of cyber warfare and defense, protecting vital computer systems against inside and outside threats alike, including social engineering, hackers, malware, spyware, and viruses.

Our Cyber and Network Security major and Cybersecurity track could teach you how to:

Protect data and manage personnel conduct in relation to safeguarding data.
Perform vulnerability analysis/penetration testing of organizations
Actively monitor and defend networks
Create basic security policy and procedures
The demand for trained cybersecurity professionals is on the rise, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics projecting employment of information security analysts to grow by 18 percent by 2024, that is 63.6% more than the average for all occupations (11%).*

 

At ECPI University, your classroom experience is reinforced with hands-on instruction, using the same kind of technology found in the workplace. Create and build secure networks in Windows, Cisco, and Linux environments, and design and implement network security plans to keep hackers at bay and networks secure. Specifically, ECPI’s major in Cyber and Network Security with a track in Cybersecurity degree program could teach you how to:

Maintain security hardware and software
Evaluate problems and monitor network to ensure its availability to system users
Identify customer needs and use that information to design, interpret, and assess network and security requirements
Plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures
Install security software
Monitor networks for security breaches
Perform vulnerability analysis and penetration testing
Further develop knowledge in the following areas:

Ethical and Professional Practices
Logic and Decision Processes; Troubleshooting; Problem Resolution
Risk Management and Disaster Recovery
Customer Service and System Self-Assessment
Installation and Configuration of Client and Server Operating Systems, Network Services, and Security Tools
Protection of Sensitive Information by Preventing, Detecting, and Responding to Cyber Security Attacks
ECPI University’s cyber security curriculum aims to prepare graduates to sit for IT certification exams related to CompTIA, ECCouncil, Cisco Systems, and Microsoft.