This IDS Bachelor of Science major in Cybersecurity is offered through the College of Arts & Letters at Old Dominion University. The highly interdisciplinary program offers a four-year, 120-hour curriculum focused on the subject of cybersecurity and provides opportunities for students to integrate education and training with the application of problem-solving skills in the lab environment.
The learning objectives of this curriculum are:
- Discover, analyze, and comprehend the effects of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in cyber physical systems.
- Determine solutions for the different cybersecurity vulnerabilities in early stage to prevent them from escalating to become threats.
- Identify the existing attack vectors and the required mitigation actions.
- Have good understanding of the techniques to protect or destruct both classified and unclassified data.
- Protect an organization's critical information and assets by ethically integrating cybersecurity risk management and business continuity best practices throughout an enterprise.
- A good understanding of the information security triad and applying that to an organization.
- Implement continuous network monitoring and provide real-time security solutions.
- Analyze advanced persistent threats and deploy countermeasures and conduct risk and vulnerability assessments of planned and installed information systems.
- Participate in forensic analysis of cyber incidents and assist in recovery of operations.
- Formulate, update, and communicate short- and long-term organizational cybersecurity strategies and policies.