Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity (AICyber) Major is designed to integrate foundational and advanced knowledge of cybersecurity with artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and tools. It prepares students to design, implement, and evaluate AI-enabled solutions to address complex cybersecurity challenges across domains such as network security, threat detection, malware analysis, cyber forensics, and secure automation.
Program Highlights
- Earn your bachelor’s degree from an institution that has received all three National Security Agency designations as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations (CAE-CO), in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD), and in Cyber Research (CAE-R).
- Graduates from this program will have the skills and proficiencies that are critical in today’s AI powered world.
- 51³Ô¹ÏPro’s AICyber major program is at the forefront of AI-powered cybersecurity and offers extensive opportunities for hands-on applications via labs and exercises.
The Major requirements include the following core and elective courses:
- IDS 300W Interdisciplinary Theory and Concepts
- CYSE 200T Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society
- CYSE 201S Cybersecurity and the Social Sciences
- CYSE 250 Basic Cybersecurity Programming and Networking
- CYSE 300 Introduction to Cybersecurity
- CYSE 301 Cybersecurity Techniques and Operations
- CYSE 368 Cybersecurity Internship or CYSE 494 Entrepreneurship in Cybersecurity
- CYSE 406 Cyber Law
- CYSE 425W Cybersecurity Strategy and Policy
- IDS 493 IDS Electronic Portfolio Project
- CS 422 Introduction to Machine Learning
- CS 480 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- CYSE 420 Applied AI in Cybersecurity
- CYSE 270 Linux System for Cybersecurity
- CYSE 280 Windows System Management and Security
- CS 455/555ÌýIntroduction to Networks and Communications
- CYSE 450 Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing
- CS 463 Cryptography for Cybersecurity
- CS 464 Networked Systems Security
- CS 469 Data Analytics for Cybersecurity
- CS 472 Network and Systems Security
Learning Outcomes
Upon graduation with the AICyber Major, the students will be able to:
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- Analyze ethical and social issues in cybersecurity and AI to clearly understand ethical standards and rules for cybersecurity professionals and to promote social responsibility.
- Communicate in writing their understanding of cybersecurity problems and decisions about the use of AI in cyber defense and operations in a cohesive and well-structured manner.
- Integrate principles and methods from a variety of disciplines to develop and implement best practices to solve cybersecurity complexities with AI tools.
- Identify, formulate and solve complex cyber operation problems by applying AI tools.
- Analyze global cybersecurity problems and make decisions that enhance the effectiveness of cyber defense and operation solutions based on these analyses.
- Orally communicate understanding of cybersecurity and explain decisions in cohesive and well-structured presentations to both technical and non-technical audience.
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