Cybersecurity Studies

Overview

Course Details

The Cybersecurity Studies MSc course at the American Public University provides you with an advanced understanding of large-scale cyber threats and cyber attack prevention, detection, and response. Build your foundation in network security, information assurance, risk management, information security, cybercrime, and digital forensics with the Master of Science in Cybersecurity Studies.

Become familiar with the issues, policies, practices, and perspectives of various sectors, agencies, and disciplines, such as national security, intelligence, criminal justice, and emergency management through this master’s degree in cybersecurity studies. Deepen your understanding of how cyberthreats impact human behaviors, public confidence, stock markets, economic sectors, and other critical infrastructures.

What You Will Do

• Understand national cyber threats and cybersecurity challenges arising from both external attackers and insider threats
• Study the legal, social, regulatory, ethical, and technical issues related to securing information systems and national critical infrastructures
• Comprehend interdisciplinary policies, practices, perspectives, and products required to address the cyber threats to information systems and critical infrastructures
• Learn the methods of vulnerability assessment, risk mitigation, auditing, and certification of information systems and critical infrastructures