Defense & Forensics

Defense & Forensics

Bachelor of Applied Science
Cyber Operations

Defense & Forensics

The Defense & Forensics Track is an interdisciplinary cyber education program that conforms to many of the NSA's CAE-CO and CAE-CD requirements.

An advanced upper division Junior/Senior level program

Our curriculum includes both offensive and defensive cybersecurity content delivered within our state-of-the-art Virtual Learning Environment to ensure our students have extensive hands-on experiences to develop the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to succeed after they graduate.

This Cyber Operations - Defense and Forensics degree program conforms with many of the NSA's CAE-CO CAE-CD requirements.

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Example Schedule

**Does not include general degree education requirements


Freshman Year

Preparatory division coursework

Sophomore Year

Preparatory division coursework

Junior Year

CYBV301
Fundamentals of Cyber Security

CYBV329
Cyber Law, Ethics & Policy

CYBV385
Introduction to Cyber Operations

CYBV388
Cyber Investigations & Forensics

CYBV326
Introductory Methods of Network Analysis

CYBV435
Cyber Threat Intelligence

APCV320
Computational Thinking & Doing

ENGV306
Advanced Composition

Senior Year

CYBV400
Active Cyber Defense

Choice of Specialization

BASV314
Mathematics for Applied Science

CYBV498
Cyber Operations Senior Capstone

CYBV473
Violent Python

CYBV480
Cyber Warfare

Specialization

The specialization options are electives and the following courses can be substituted for each specialization.

Specialization Options
Cyber Defense

Cyber Defense CYBV454
Malware Threats & Analysis
CYBV460
Principles of Zero Trust Networks
Cyber Forensics

CYBV477
Advanced Cyber Functions

CYBV386
Enterprise & File System Forensics (Linux)

CYBV384
Host & File System Forensics
(Windows)
Cyber Threat Intelligence CYBV436
Counter Cyber Treat Intelligence
 
Penetration Testing CYBV481
Social Engineering Attacks
 
Malware Analysis/Reverse Engineering                CYBV454
Malware Threats & Analysis
 

Cyber jobs are in high demand. 
According to the industry, the need is going to continue growing for many years.

Typical job titles in Defense & Forensics

Computer Network Defender
Penetration Tester
Security Operations Center Analyst
Incident Responder
Cyber Threat Analyst
Digital Forensics Analyst

Admissions Requirements

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