Keiser University’s Bachelor of Science degree in Cybersecurity prepares students to become cybersecurity practitioners, attain professional certifications and help global private/public organizations manage cybersecurity risk. Cybersecurity practitioners are urgently needed to fill varied and challenging roles in protecting people, organizations, countries and cyberspace from risks and threats.

The Information Assurance (IA) Concentration enables students to help protect organizations using proactive governance, risk, and compliance frameworks and cyber risk management practices. Organizational controls used to ensure data/information availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation are examined.
The Digital Defense (DD) Concentration enables students to help protect organizations using proactive technical testing and evaluation software, investigative processes, and cyber risk management practices. Organizational cyber defense and countermeasure capabilities and controls used to detect, respond, and effectively recover from cyber risks are examined.

Program Objectives

The following objectives are designed to meet Keiser University’s mission and its goals:

• To provide students with the knowledge, business empathy, critical thinking, problem analysis/solution generation and documentation abilities needed in the cybersecurity field.
• To inform students about essential assurance, governance, and regulatory/contractual compliance practices as they pertain to cyber risk management.
• To enhance students’ ability to identify, protect, detect, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity risks.
• To equip students with the skills needed to obtain input from local business organizations and global practitioners to guide and inform cybersecurity activities.

Program Outline

To receive a Bachelor of Science degree in Cybersecurity, students must complete 126 credit hours.