Jan 30, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog

Learning Outcomes


Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs):

After completing the MS, students will be able to:

• work independently to defend a system during a cyber-attack;

• collaborate with a team taking on a variety of NICE-defined work roles to stop a cyber-attack in process;

• critically analyze cybersecurity incidents within the broader context of local, regional, national and international cybercrime to best structure their institutional policies and reconfigure systems to defend against future attack;

• facilitate communication regarding cybersecurity incidents with colleagues within a broad range of cybersecurity roles, as well as those outside the field;

• employ specialized software appropriate for each investigative stage;

• execute cybersecurity and digital forensic investigations under appropriate ethical guidelines;

• assess common legal issues within cybersecurity;

• compose a court-ready formal report for diverse types of incidents;

• discuss complex cybersecurity issues within a socially just and ethical framework; and,

• propose solutions for the discrimination, oppression, privilege, and social and economic resources that shape the field of cybersecurity and digital investigation.