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About Purdue University
Purdue University is a massive research facility. The university is well-known for its science, technology, engineering, math programs, creativity, originality, and invention.
It’s a location where individuals seeking an education may turn their ideas into reality, particularly when those breakthroughs have a scientific, technical, social, or humanitarian effect.
The institution, founded in 1869 in West Lafayette, Indiana, proudly serves the state, nation, and globe.
Purdue University’s reputation as a major research university is bolstered by top-tier pharmacy, business, engineering, and agriculture programs. There are almost 39,000 students enrolled here.
Nonremedial tutoring, a women’s center, placement service, daycare, health service, and health insurance are just a few of the student amenities available here.
It provides 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late-night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lit pathways/sidewalks, student patrols, and controlled dormitory access as part of its campus safety and security services (key, security card, etc.).
Purdue University-West Lafayette does not allow students of legal age to consume alcohol.
Information on the Program of INSC
The whole scope of information security/cybersecurity concerns is not limited to a single conventional topic area, such as computer science.
Still, it includes (at a minimum) software, hardware, policy, education, finance, psychology, ethics, communication, and languages.
Students who complete the Interdisciplinary Information Security (INSC) program will be well-prepared for a job in cybersecurity, information security, cybercrime investigation, privacy protection, security policy, or other related fields.
This degree program is built on a core set of studies that provide students with a solid foundation in cybersecurity and encryption, network security, associated areas, and technology policy and information ethics.
After that, students choose courses to specialize in a subarea of the profession, such as cyber forensics or incident response, in cooperation with their advisers.
They also select supplementary courses in relevant disciplines to expand their knowledge of related subjects (e.g., homeland security policy or general forensic science).
A master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation is required to demonstrate that the student can apply course information to a real-world situation and successfully articulate the answer.
Graduates work in prominent positions at government agencies such as the SEC, NASA, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and the US Senate; at prestigious research organizations such as MITRE and Sandia; and at private companies such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.
MS and Ph.D. degrees are available through this program. While the Graduate Committee of the Program, housed at CERIAS, administers admission to the program, graduation is conducted by a participating department of Purdue University of your choosing.
The curriculum is interdisciplinary, requiring (and recommending) courses in both computer science and other disciplines.
Regardless of whatever department handles your graduation, the major label on your transcript will read “Information Security,” but it will not appear on your diploma.
Students without a computer background will need to take primary computer science/technology classes and potentially mathematics classes to satisfy the fundamental cybersecurity courses requirements. Before applying, applicants should examine the necessary criteria.
Information Security Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Program
The Ph.D. program is a continuation of the current Interdisciplinary Masters of Information Security program.
Before the establishment of this Interdisciplinary Infosec Ph.D. program, Purdue University Masters’ graduates interested in purely computational and technological research in information security were referred to the Department of Computer Science, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Purdue Polytechnic Institute’s Doctor of Philosophy programs and this practice continues.
Students interested in enhancing their technical and scientific grounding in information security and combining it with preparation in other areas can benefit from the new Interdisciplinary major.
Each participating department or program can define its standards by molding and reducing the general requirements and possibilities accessible to students in the program.
The Departments of Communication and Philosophy, the Polytechnic Institute, and the Program in Linguistics at Purdue University are currently sponsoring the Interdisciplinary Ph.D.
The program has established an Information Security concentration at the master’s level and has now extended it to the Ph.D. level. At this time, several graduate programs are exploring sponsorship.
The Interdisciplinary Information Security Masters and Ph.D. programs are the state’s and region’s first in this discipline and the nation’s first genuinely interdisciplinary residential programs (if not the world).
Standard Graduate Degree Programs
Graduate degrees in information security can also be obtained through existing programs. Students achieve this by enrolling in a typical major, taking a core of standard courses, and choosing electives relevant to their interests.
Masters students can either do research and produce a Master’s thesis, including more study in a specific area of interest, or they can simply enroll in 30 or more credit hours of courses.
For their dissertation study, Ph.D. candidates must select a specialist topic. Computer Sciences is the most frequent major for students interested in information security;
However, degrees are also available in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Management, Philosophy, Political Science, and many other CERIAS departments.
Information Security Professional Master’s Degree in Computer Science
This Computer Science degree program is for IT professionals in industry or government who wish to further their technical cybersecurity and privacy careers.
It teaches students how to develop into information security specialists by teaching them foundational principles, relevant systems, and how to use cutting-edge software tools.
The program varies from a standard academic Computer Science Master’s degree. It focuses on a focused field of study and is designed for professionals with a bachelor’s degree in a subject other than computer science.
Professionals with programming and computer science expertise, either gained throughout their professional careers or at least an undergraduate CS minor, are eligible for the program.
The program will be a natural next step for recent B.S. grads with a computing concentration. The on-campus curriculum is meant to be finished in as little as 12 months.
However, most students require three or four semesters to complete it. This degree will also be available online starting in the summer of 2021.
Master’s and Doctoral research
Purdue University is currently working on a wide range of information security projects. We have around 100 projects in the works, including more than 30 faculty members from a dozen different academic departments.
The CERIAS WWW pages provide a more detailed description of the academics and research programs.
The majority of these projects are typically available to graduate students and can be utilized to fulfill research requirements for masters and doctoral thesis work.
Not all infosec projects are public through CERIAS, and students are not required to work on a CERIAS project to get an infosec-related degree.
