Bachelor of Science [B.S] [Cybersecurity (Interdisciplinary Studies)] From Old Dominion University

This IDS Bachelor of Science major in Cybersecurity is offered through the College of Arts & Letters at Old Dominion University. The highly interdisciplinary program offers a four-year, 120-hour curriculum focused on the subject of cybersecurity and provides opportunities for students to integrate education and training with the application of problem-solving skills in the lab environment.

The learning objectives of this curriculum are:

• Discover, analyze, and comprehend the effects of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in cyber physical systems.
• Determine solutions for the different cybersecurity vulnerabilities in early stage to prevent them from escalating to become threats.
• Identify the existing attack vectors and the required mitigation actions.
• Have good understanding of the techniques to protect or destruct both classified and unclassified data.
• Protect an organization's critical information and assets by ethically integrating cybersecurity risk management and business continuity best practices throughout an enterprise.
• A good understanding of the information security triad and applying that to an organization.
• Implement continuous network monitoring and provide real-time security solutions.
• Analyze advanced persistent threats and deploy countermeasures and conduct risk and vulnerability assessments of planned and installed information systems.
• Participate in forensic analysis of cyber incidents and assist in recovery of operations.
• Formulate, update, and communicate short- and long-term organizational cybersecurity strategies and policies.