Mar 03, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Cyber Defense, BS


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Bachelor of Science • CYBER DEF BS

The Bachelor of Science degree in Cyber Defense provides the proactive and reactive knowledge and skills that encompass security in the technological environment. Students will learn to ensure appropriate treatment of risk, compliance, and assurance from internal and external perspectives. With an emphasis on how to best protect an organization’s information assets, topics will be covered from both the business and technology perspectives. Students will have a choice between two specialties: Information Assurance or Health Care Information Assurance.

Learning Outcomes


  • Design functional information security systems that adheres to regulatory requirements.

  • Mitigate vulnerabilities and threats of an information system.

  • Evaluate policies and procedures that provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability of an information system.

Open Electives - 16-18 Credits


Total Credits: 120


*Either TECH 490   or TECH 489  must be completed unless the experiential learning component is satisfied. An upper level technology substitution must be chosen if the experiential component is completed within a required course in the major.

1See “Guide To Electives “ for list of choices.

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