Keiser University’s Bachelor of Science degree in Cybersecurity prepares students to become cybersecurity practitioners, attain professional certifications and help global private/public organizations manage cybersecurity risk. Cybersecurity practitioners are urgently needed to fill varied and challenging roles in protecting people, organizations, countries and cyberspace from risks and threats.
The Information Assurance (IA) Concentration enables students to help protect organizations using proactive governance, risk, and compliance frameworks and cyber risk management practices. Organizational controls used to ensure data/information availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation are examined.
The Digital Defense (DD) Concentration enables students to help protect organizations using proactive technical testing and evaluation software, investigative processes, and cyber risk management practices. Organizational cyber defense and countermeasure capabilities and controls used to detect, respond, and effectively recover from cyber risks are examined.
Program Objectives
The following objectives are designed to meet Keiser University’s mission and its goals:
To provide students with the knowledge, business empathy, critical thinking, problem analysis/solution generation and documentation abilities needed in the cybersecurity field.
To inform students about essential assurance, governance, and regulatory/contractual compliance practices as they pertain to cyber risk management.
To enhance students’ ability to identify, protect, detect, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity risks.
To equip students with the skills needed to obtain input from local business organizations and global practitioners to guide and inform cybersecurity activities.
Prerequisites for Major Courses
Entering students must achieve a Wonderlic score (or comparable) of 18 or above for entrance to the program;
Lower division courses must be successfully completed before beginning upper division major courses (Course equivalency is established by the dean of academic affairs from official transcripts received from accredited institutions).
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Program Outline
To receive a Bachelor of Science degree in Cybersecurity, students must complete 126 credit hours. Program requirements are as follows:
Lower Division Courses
Lower Division Cybersecurity Major Courses (39.0 credit hours)
Service/Support PC Systems I
3.0 credit hours
Service/Support PC Systems II
3.0 credit hours
Database Management
3.0 credit hours
Social, Economic and Policy Aspects of Cybersecurity
3.0 credit hours
Human Aspects of Cybersecurity
3.0 credit hours
Cybersecurity Ethics
3.0 credit hours
Principles of Information Security
3.0 credit hours
Cloud Security
3.0 credit hours
Programming for Technology Professionals
3.0 credit hours
Essentials of Networking
3.0 credit hours
Managing and Maintaining Server Operating Systems
3.0 credit hours
Multi-User Operating Systems
3.0 credit hours
Internetworking Technologies
3.0 credit hours
Lower Division General Education Requirements (36.0 credit hours)
Behavioral/Social Science (6.0 credit hours)
Any Behavior/Social Science course offered by KU
3.0 credit hours
Any Behavior/Social Science course offered by KU
3.0 credit hours
Communication (3.0 credit hours)
Speech
3.0 credit hours
Computers (3.0 credit hours)
Introduction to Computers
3.0 credit hours
Economics (3.0 credit hours)
Microeconomics
3.0 credit hours
English (6.0 credit hours)
*English Composition I
3.0 credit hours
*English Composition II
3.0 credit hours
Humanities/Fine Arts (3.0 credit hours)
Any Humanities/Fine Arts course offered by KU
3.0 credit hours
Mathematics (6.0 credit hours)
Any Mathematics course offered by KU above Intermediate Algebra
3.0 credit hours
Any Mathematics course offered by KU above Intermediate Algebra
3.0 credit hours
Natural Science (6.0 credit hours)
Any Natural Science course offered by KU
3.0 credit hours
Any Natural Science course offered by KU
3.0 credit hours
Note: *Must be completed with “C” or higher for Gordon Rule
Credit hours in parentheses indicate the required number of credit hours in each discipline.
Upper Division Courses
Upper Division Cybersecurity Major Courses (36.0 credit hours)
Cyber Laws, Frameworks and Standards
3.0 credit hours
Risk Identification in Cybersecurity
3.0 credit hours
Cybersecurity Risk Protection
3.0 credit hours
Principles of Risk Detection
3.0 credit hours
Response to Cybersecurity Risk
3.0 credit hours
Cyber Risk Recovery
3.0 credit hours
Critical Infrastructure Risk Management
3.0 credit hours
Protecting Cyber-Physical Systems
3.0 credit hours
Cyber Risk Management Programs
3.0 credit hours
Cybersecurity Policy
3.0 credit hours
Cybersecurity Program Administration
3.0 credit hours
Cyberspace
3.0 credit hours
Information Assurance Concentration (15 credits required)
Privacy
3.0 credit hours
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)
3.0 credit hours
Identity Access Management (IAM)
3.0 credit hours
Secure Development Operations
3.0 credit hours
Contractual/Regulatory Compliance
3.0 credit hours
Digital Defense Concentration (15 credits required)
Digital Media Forensics
3.0 credit hours
Network Forensics
3.0 credit hours
Computer System Forensic Analysis
3.0 credit hours
Network Defense and Countermeasures
3.0 credit hours
Ethical Hacking (CEH)
3.0 credit hours
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