In their 2017 report, a leading cyber professional organization, (ISC)2, predicted 1.8 million unfilled jobs in the cybersecurity workforce in 2022. Statistics reveal that the cyber industry unemployment rate has stayed close to zero for over a decade, and someone with less than five years of experience in cybersecurity can earn around $100,000 a year.
Learning Outcomes
Graduates will be able to:
- Analyze human information behavior and information security phenomena in cyber environments.
- Explain the structure of a cybersecurity system, implement the system, handle the system operations, and evaluate the system efficiency.
- Strategically analyze the external and internal environments of an organization to create and facilitate a human-systems integration (HSI) process.
- Create teams for HSI environments and facilitate team communication and coordination.
- Develop information policies and regulations for HSI and cyber information security system environments.
Classes
30 Credit Hours: 4 Core Courses + 6 Elective Courses
Students in this program must complete 30 hours of coursework: 12 credits of required courses and 18 credits of electives.
Core Courses (12 Credit Hours):
- Challenges in Information-Intensive Organization Administration
- Seminar in Information Science
- Leadership and Ethics in Information Security
- Seminar in Applied Information Systems for Information Specialists
Electives (18 Credit Hours):
18 credits of electives at the 500 level or above. Advisors will help students select elective courses appropriate to their areas of professional interest. Students have the opportunity to take courses in the Darla Moore School of Business, engage in a virtual cyber range through our partnership with Fusion Cyber, and take special topics courses taught by USC cyber security leaders.