Program Overview

This program is designed to fill a domestic and worldwide critical and growing need for cybersecurity professionals in the public and private sectors. Cybersecurity is becoming one of the significant domestic and global challenges. Washington University of Science and Technology’s mission focuses on providing its students with all the knowledge, abilities, and skills to “exceed emerging global challenges.” Washington University of Science and Technology’s MS in Cybersecurity program emphasizes identifying and mitigating information security risks and threats faced by organizations and strategies for securing data, processes, and systems of these public and private institutions.

The program has been carefully designed to meet real-world requirements and facilitate hands-on experience for successful careers in the general domain of information and cybersecurity technology. The program is appropriate for IT professionals interested in mid-level cyber security positions, managing the cybersecurity program, including supervising information security implications that specifically include strategic, personnel, infrastructure, policy enforcement, emergency planning, and security awareness. Common job titles: Information Security Specialist, Network and Computer Systems Administrator, Computer Network Support Specialist, and Computer Systems Analyst.

MSCS Program Objectives

• Upon successful completion of all program requirements, graduates will be able to:
• Identify components of a modern information system and the threats that challenge its security and foundational infrastructure
• Apply knowledge in the field of cybersecurity to propose solutions to real-world problems.
• Identify and apply cybersecurity tools and procedures, standard-based concepts, and capabilities.
• Analyze network designs, topologies, architectures, protocols, communications, administration, operations, and resource management for wired and wireless networks that affect the security of cyberspace
• Develop, implement, and maintain digital security strategies to protect the organization’s data.
• Evaluate and recommend cybersecurity systems, applications, and solutions for a network’s defense and monitoring scheme
• Relate to and communicate technical information verbally, in writing, and presentations.
• Use appropriate resources to stay abreast of the latest industry tools, applications, and techniques in the domain of cybersecurity