In modern areas, such as game development, cybersecurity, and database design, we provide hands-on undergraduate and graduate programs, all of them guided by experimented professionals in the business who are going to make your dreams their own.
The value of a cybersecurity master’s program
The demand for specialists with sophisticated abilities to combat and safeguard against cyber-attacks continues to increase in today’s fast-growing and increasingly digital world.
Our MSc courses in cybersecurity provide you enhanced capabilities in products and applications, building safe and reliable systems, providing you with the ability to undertake practical cybersecurity research and more.
Thousands of professionals holding a degree each year produce more than those with a bachelor’s degree. Many occupations for computers and IT workers require a master’s degree, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
You will gain the knowledge and skills needed for leadership jobs by following your master’s in cybersecurity and then position yourself as an essential thought leader.
Why Sacred Heart University?
- Study with our flexible master’s program full or part-time
A Master’s degree in cybersecurity from Sacred Heart University offers you a number of alternatives in a 30-36 credit program, dependent on your professional aspirations. In 12-18 months, students can earn a full or part-time cybersecurity degree and pick a thesis or a non-thesis path.
- Learn from and network with professors and experts from the business
The professorship of Sacred Heart University comprises academics and experts from business with more than 50 years of collective cybersecurity expertise.
Students of the SHU’s full-time and part-time cyber security program are educated by distinguished and published researchers, including industry-renowned professionals and speakers in research interests such as network security, digital signal handling, embedded systems, cloud computing, and cyber-physical systems.
- Experience the famous and popular SHU program.
Conduct your career at Sacred Heart University‘s top-class Business & Technology Jack Welch College (WCBT). Cybersecurity courses at the WCBT are taught by highly qualified professionals with a record of distinguished academic and professional experience among the top 5% of the world’s leading business schools.
The WCBT has been named among its many honors:
- One of the best business schools in the Princeton Review
- A Poets&Quants Best Business School Undergraduate
- The finest undergraduate business program in the country is among U.S. News and World Report
- Extension with a connected cyber security certificate your professional prospects
The Cybersecurity Certificate is aimed at providing people with an introduction to the continuously evolving threat environment of networking, risk management, security architecture and ethical and security abilities.
Once the certificate program has been completed, alumni will be better able to begin or carry on their careers in risk management & safety. In cybersecurity degrees, courses given for the certificate may be used for the MS.
- Enjoy a practical, creative curriculum
Students benefit from world-class facilities including a state-of-the-art cyber security laboratory that provides a practical learning environment for cyber threats, design solutions and defensive methods.
The Cybersecurity Lab has 40 workstations with modern technologies, security software and dedicated server space for support for education, research, training & community outreach in cyber security and privacy, which is separated from the University network.
In business, industry, arts, personal communication and trade of all kinds, the whole world is dependent on information technology.
New and evolving safety threats to their information resources are constantly being posed by the use and dependency on technologies.
There are constantly new hazards and risks and prompt action is needed to maintain business. Security threats need to be dealt with in order to prosper and survive in our constantly changing and quickly increasing world of technology.
The Cyber Security Certificate Program provides learners with an introduction to the continuously evolving environment of issues, networking, risk and risk management, security and integrity and security architecture. The certificate program courses are:
- They provide an introduction to developing a safe and safe environment for risk management technologies.
- Overview of the appropriate risk management techniques in technology.
- Introduce the person to a range of social and ethical concerns for technological security and risk management.
- Help people discover and develop ways to mitigate new and current dangers.
- Give the person the ability to deal with safety incidents.
Upon completion, the student is able to start or continue as a risk management and information security professional. The certificate courses are subject to a Master of Science degree in cybersecurity.
Conditions of the course
For students with no professional experience or expertise equal to the following courses, the following requirements are necessary.
The program director may propose further requirements. In the first trimester, all necessary courses must be completed with a B or better grade.
- Introduction to Prog using scripting
This hands-on course presents programming on Windows and Linux platforms with Python.
The topics addressed include basic programming principles, regular expressions, basic data structures, algorithms and basic programs including variables and kinds of programming.
The following fundamental debugging techniques are also possible: string, arrays, sequential and parallel execution, assignments, decision and branching, loops, functions, procedures and calls.
- Computer networks
In this course, students will explore the Internet paradigm of networks and data communication. This is a laboratory course that covers tasks carried out with Wireshark on Unix and Windows.
Students will examine the systems of hex and binary numbers. A study will focus on network architecture, Internet protocol stack, LANs, WANs and MANs, hardware, compression, bug management, protocols, routing, circuit switching and parceling networks.
- Network Security
It focuses on the idea, tools, and strategies of network defense. The topics of the project include defense-in-depth, networking threats, network hardening and intrusion detection/prevention and response (DMZ), VPN, proxy servers and honeypots.
This course includes network management, network operations and network security rules related to network defense.
- Introduction to Cybersecurity
The initial course gives an overall picture of the cyberspace ecosystem’s security elements. This course introduces students to the fundamentals of cybersecurity and cybersecurity.
The topics include CIA (confidentiality, integrity and accessibility) and Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) Framework, Threats and Adversaries, Vulnerabilities and Risk Management, and Security Living Cycle.
- Security Management
Good management is necessary to preserve efficiency in all new security technology.
How can we make security technology efficient with so many new technologies?
Where are we beginning?
How can we measure and plan to enhance the safety position of a company?
This course addresses these difficult questions of organizational security management. The topics addressed include the establishment of policies and ISPs, incident response, ID access management, security control, risk management of security, vulnerability and safety metrics.
