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Cybersecurity, B.S.

在Immaculata大学探索网络安全

Recent high-profile cyberattacks solidify the need for a qualified cybersecurity workforce and underscore the severe shortage of these professionals. 如果你想追求一个快速发展的职业,看看B.S. in cybersecurity.

In addition, every technology worker is expected to be involved with protecting and defending apps, data, devices, 基础设施和人员. So if you’re planning on majoring in technology, consider adding a minor in cybersecurity.

At A Glance

Program: Bachelor of Science
Audience: Undergraduate students
Format: Face-to-face classes
Next Start Date: August 26, 2024
Time to Completion Four years

“Immaculata让我可以做很多不同的事情——参加荣誉课程, 参加田径队, 主修网络安全,辅修信息系统和会计. I’ve learned about hardware and software, how to hack into systems and how to protect them. 我所有的教授都是来帮助学生发展和学习的. 他们喜欢和学生一起工作,他们在各地都有联系. 他们关心你和你的学习, 他们会确保你在最好的地方毕业.”

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利用我们教练的经验, 所有网络安全领域的专家, the program takes students through the phases of assessing a system’s vulnerability, 纵深防御, 利用法医学. Immaculata also offers a unique course in open source intelligence that few programs currently offer. This course explains techniques to improve the collection and analysis of open source information to generate intelligence.

An advisory board, 由经验丰富的网络安全顾问组成, 指导和支持项目,保持课程的时效性和相关性.

Immaculata’s Bachelor of Science in cybersecurity will prepare you to assess the vulnerability and security needs of computer network systems, 设计广泛的安全解决方案, 为您的组织推荐所需的更改, 并管理安全系统的实施, 包括政策和程序.

In Immaculata’s 应用技术实验室, 你将接受电流训练, 行业标准技术, 帮助你练习关键技能,为职场做好准备.

除了对该领域专业人士的高需求, 网络安全专业人员的平均工资超过90美元,000 per year. U.S. 政府和地方执法机构, 保险和医疗保健行业, 大大小小的公司都需要网络安全专业人员.

Immaculata’s 网络安全咨询委员会 offers strategic advice that helps guide the development and administration of the program, particularly ensuring that our course offerings fulfill the needs of the profession. Our advisors have volunteered their expertise pro bono because they recognize the benefits of our bachelor’s degree for emerging leaders in the field of cybersecurity. Their advice is non-binding and they bear no legal responsibilities with the institution.

Board Members

Theresa Payton
Chief Advisor and CEO of Fortalice Solutions, LLC 也是Dark3的联合创始人 LLC

The founder of Fortalice, Theresa Payton is not your average computer security consultant. She’s a “cyber sentry.”

从2006年5月到2008年9月, Payton worked for the Bush administration as the White House chief information officer (CIO). 她是第一位担任这一职务的女性, 她的团队服务于总统和三个,总统行政办公室的000多名成员.

现在是Fortalice Solutions的首席顾问兼首席执行官, LLC, 也是Dark3的联合创始人, LLC, 网络安全软件公司, 佩顿提供安全保障, 为私人和公共组织提供风险和欺诈咨询服务. One person at a time, 她在反击网络罪犯, by extension, 支持所有人的互联网安全.

Payton is a graduate of Immaculata University and now serves on the institution’s Board of Trustees. She earned a Master of Science in management information systems from the University of Virginia.

She is the co-author of two books, “Protecting Your Internet Identity: Are You Naked Online?、《下载赌钱app手机版》等.”  Payton and “Privacy in the Age of Big Data” were featured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Jeffrey Lipson
执行董事,第8层安全

Lipson has over 20 years of management and consulting experience with cybersecurity, 技术研究计划和基础设施设计, 在商业和军事环境中的实施和维护. He has managed multimillion-dollar cyber operations with service and maintenance teams.

利普森在网络创新方面发挥了重要作用, identifying technical gaps and developing proposals for new tools and techniques to meet current and future needs for national defense and Fortune 500 companies. He raised $2.500万美元的风险投资,用于开发一种新型无线地图工具, 以及为国防部客户所做的其他努力.

作为海军陆战队网络司令部的创始人, Lipson, 预备役的上校, led a team of joint and interagency intelligence community professionals within the cyber warfare mission who were engaged in full-spectrum cyber activities against high-priority enemy targets.

利普森有TS/SCI安全许可有反情报测谎仪.

Lipson earned a Bachelor of Arts in history and geography from Villanova University and a Master of Science in management information science from Pennsylvania State University. 他是思科认证网络助理(CCMA).

Catherine M. Reich
网络安全需求顾问

作为网络安全需求顾问, Reich provides contractor support to government clients through conducting risk assessments to baseline their current security posture, and she identifies areas for improvement in accordance with Risk Management Framework (RMF).

在此之前,她在一家著名的政府承包商担任现任职务, she provided contractor support to the Department of Defense (DoD) test and evaluation (T&E) community.

From 2010-2016, Reich served as a project manager for the test capabilities directory database project, 管理一个技术团队并与涉众互动, 作为项目与数据提供者和系统用户的接口.

Because of her passion for promoting technical education to the workforce of tomorrow, 她担任该组织科学方面的首席合同支持, technology, 工程和数学(STEM)劳动力发展计划. This effort was designed to bridge the talent gaps   that exist in the test and evaluation workforce by connecting talented college students with hands-on internships at DoD test ranges across the country.

在担任国防承包商之前, 赖希支持国会图书馆, the International Association for Dental Research and the Arlington Chamber of Commerce.

Reich completed her master’s degree in cybersecurity from the University of Maryland, University College in August 2015 and acquired her Security+ certification in April 2016. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in mass communications and marketing from York College of Pennsylvania.  She, her  husband, and their children reside in Springfield, VA, just outside of Washington, D.C.

James K. Murray Jr., Ph.D.
有机化学副教授 & 伊玛库拉塔大学化学系系主任

Murray received his M.S. (1998) and Ph.D. (2003)德雷塞尔大学有机化学硕士学位. 在过去的六年里,他对网络安全越来越感兴趣, in particular studying the role of operations and the integration of cybersecurity practices into daily operations and planning.

穆雷曾在罗姆担任分析化学家,分析聚合物改性剂 & Haas Corporation and as an organic chemist in the medicinal chemist department of GlaxoSmithKline. Murray在有机合成方面有20多年的经验, 产品隔离/净化, 和核磁共振(NMR)光谱分析.

Murray’s research interests are in the areas of organic chemistry and organic chemistry education. He is interested in developing experiments that introduce new methodologies and techniques that can be used as effective teaching tools.

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