TY - GEN
T1 - U.S. Master's Level Cybersecurity Programs
T2 - 24th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education, SIGITE 2023
AU - Nasereddin, Mahdi
AU - Glantz, Edward
AU - Peca, Joanne
AU - Bartolacci, Michael
AU - Grimes, Galen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 ACM.
PY - 2023/10/11
Y1 - 2023/10/11
N2 - As the popularity of Cybersecurity-related curricula grows both among students and institutions at the higher education level, there exist many questions regarding how degree programs should be structured and what specific content should be taught in them. Many areas of study that were once thought to be somewhat removed from a networking or information security focus have created new courses, or adapted existing ones, to create degree programs based on some aspect of Cybersecurity. Whether the program is titled Information Security, Information Governance, Business Systems Security, Network Security, or a host of other variations and terms, the heart of all of them is Cybersecurity. In other words, all of these programs revolve around the securing of data, systems, networks, and their physical footprints in organization. This work seeks to review the various types of master's level programs related to Cybersecurity in the U.S.
AB - As the popularity of Cybersecurity-related curricula grows both among students and institutions at the higher education level, there exist many questions regarding how degree programs should be structured and what specific content should be taught in them. Many areas of study that were once thought to be somewhat removed from a networking or information security focus have created new courses, or adapted existing ones, to create degree programs based on some aspect of Cybersecurity. Whether the program is titled Information Security, Information Governance, Business Systems Security, Network Security, or a host of other variations and terms, the heart of all of them is Cybersecurity. In other words, all of these programs revolve around the securing of data, systems, networks, and their physical footprints in organization. This work seeks to review the various types of master's level programs related to Cybersecurity in the U.S.
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U2 - 10.1145/3585059.3611414
DO - 10.1145/3585059.3611414
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85176231005
T3 - SIGITE 2023 - Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education
SP - 28
EP - 32
BT - SIGITE 2023 - Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 11 October 2023 through 14 October 2023
ER -