Cybersecurity: Governance and Leadership Option, MS

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This graduate program is administered by the Department of Computing and New Media Technologies .

The MS in Cybersecurity represents a fully online, asynchronous curriculum comprised of 34 credits to include seven core courses, 3 concentration or option courses, a Capstone preparation course and a project-based Capstone course. You will be able to complete more than one program option. As a graduates of the program, you will gain the core competencies required to serve in a variety of cybersecurity roles within diverse organizations. UW Extended Campus, UW-Green Bay, UW-La Crosse, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Parkside, UW-Platteville, UW-River Falls, UW-Stevens Point, and UW-Superior offer the program jointly. The required capstone course, which represents the culminating experience in the program, will provide you with the opportunity to apply skills acquired from coursework through a project-based experience in your option/concentration area.

Consists of 34 credits

Core Courses, 25 credits

CYB 700 - Fundamentals of Cybersecurity Credits: 3
CYB 703 - Network Security Credits: 3
CYB 705 - Sociological Aspects of Cybersecurity Credits: 3
CYB 707 - Cybersecurity Program Planning and Implementation Credits: 3
CYB 710 - Introduction to Cryptography Credits: 3
CYB 715 - Managing Security Risk Credits: 3
CYB 720 - Communication in Cybersecurity Credits: 3
CYB 789 - Cybersecurity Pre-capstone Credits: 1
CYB 790 - Cybersecurity Capstone Credits: 3

Governance and Leadership

CYB 755 - Security Administration Credits: 3
CYB 760 - Cybersecurity Leadership and Team Dynamics Credits: 3
CYB 765 - Cybersecurity Management Credits: 3

Note

You may take more than one track (see Cybersecurity: Cyber Response Option, MS , Cybersecurity: Digital Forensics Option, MS , and Cybersecurity: Security Architecture Option, MS ).