Department of Cybersecurity

Ken Mayer, Jr., Assistant Professor

Chris Simmons, Associate Professor

 

The Department of Cybersecurity houses the academic program leading to the Cybersecurity degree. Cybersecurity is concerned with solutions for securing an organization’s assets including, and especially data. 

The field of cybersecurity has grown and evolved significantly in recent years. It is expected that in the U.S. alone, thousands of professionals in the field will be added to the workforce. Cybersecurity professionals are concerned with the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data regardless of the form the data may take: electronic, print or other forms. Governments, military, corporations, financial institutions, hospitals and private businesses amass a great deal of confidential information about their employees, customers, products, research and financial status. Most of this information is collected, processed, and stored on computers, and transmitted across networks for additional processing, use and storage. Protecting confidential information is a business requirement, and in many cases, is also an ethical and legal requirement. The cybersecurity degree program offers a deep grounding covering the breadth of security concepts from theoretical frameworks through models to policies and ethical practices. It focuses on security challenges, threats and requirements for operating systems, computer architectures, networking protocols and organizations’ data and information. It is the ideal major for the student who is passionate about developing the ability to:

• Identify the information security risks and create effective strategies for mitigation;
• Apply technologies and procedures that industry professionals use to secure business systems;
• Discover how information security is essential to organizational success;
• Possess the knowledge to analyze the role of security within an organization as well as educate corporate employees about their security responsibilities;
• Analyze the professional, legal and ethical impact of information security on individuals, business organizations, and society;
• Apply industry standard techniques to secure large-scale networks; and
• Gain the competencies necessary to plan, customize, and manage large-scale secure networks, databases and operating systems for optimum business applications and/or plans.

Career Opportunities may include:

• Information Security Investigator
• Forensic Investigator
• Information Security Engineer
• Information Systems Security Engineer
• Penetration Tester
• Cybersecurity and Information Systems Engineer

All students majoring in cybersecurity are required to attend ENGR 0XY0 Professional Development (PD) each semester they are enrolled, with limited exceptions. Students not enrolled in Lipscomb classes on the day that ENGR 0XY0 is offered are exempt from PD, as re students who are enrolled in the CCT 395V  Internship course.

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