Foundation Courses

** This course can be transferred into if students have current security+ certificate.

• MATH 244 - Discrete Structures
• IASP 221 - LINUX Administration
• IASP 230 - Introduction to Cybersecurity **

Major Courses

• IASP 330 - Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity
• CISC 335 - Computer Networks
• CISC 337 - Database Management Systems
• IASP 340 - Security Policy and Procedures
• IASP 355 - Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
• CISC 385 - Cryptography and Computer Security
• IASP 420 - Network Security
• IASP 430 - Digital Forensics
• IASP 455 - Secure and Intelligent Programming
• IASP 470 - Capstone: System Security (cc)

Major Electives

and three courses from the following:

• CISC 311 - Data Structures
• CISC 339 - Artificial Intelligence
• CISC 341 - Computer Architecture
• CISC 359 - Website Administration and Security
• IASP 380 - Internship: Cybersecurity Workplace Experience I
• IASP 381 - Internship: Cybersecurity Workplace Experience II
• CISC 370 - Systems Analysis and Design
• CISC 411 - Analysis of Algorithms
• CISC 421 - Operating Systems
• CISC 430 - Healthcare Analytics and Apps
• IASP 395 - Special Topics in Cybersecurity
• IASP 397 - Independent Study in Cybersecurity
• IASP 460 - Wireless Network and Security

Open Electives

• Any four courses

Program Outcomes

By the end of this program, students should be able to:

• Identify types of risks, cyber threats and vulnerabilities in IT infrastructures through wired and wireless networks
• Prove the concepts of cyber defense, cyber offense, cyber investigation and cyber management
• Identify research problems, compare with previous approaches, develop solutions and discuss the research results
• Apply knowledge of the privacy of information, information hiding, information assurance, information encryption/decryption
• Function effectively in a team to complete prototyping of detection, prevention and protection for internal and external cyber-attacks and cyber intrusions
• Validate evidence related to cybercrimes from personal computers, smartphones, infrastructure hosts, wired and wireless networks

The Cybersecurity Minor

Students can choose to have a minor in Cybersecurity.

15 credits required.

1. CSEC curriculum uses both IASP and CISC course codes. Check its curriculum for courses allowed in CSEC Minor.
2. Students need to use Gen Ed elective and/or open elective to fulfill the 15 credits requirements.
3. Recommended five courses for CSEC minor are among CISC 131 , IASP 221 , IASP 230 ,IASP 330 , IASP 340 , CISC 359 .
   
   Note, any course being used to fulfill students’ major requirements cannot be used for towards the minor. For example, IASP 230   cannot be used for some majors due to the fact that their majors have required it as one of their major courses already.

Note(s)

* These courses fulfill part of the General Education requirements. The total of major concentration is 16 courses or 48 credits.

Mercy College’s 15-credit residency requirement in the major concentrations of cybersecurity must be satisfied by courses numbered 200 or above.

Undergraduate students may take a maximum of two graduate level courses, which will be used for elective course requirements.

Students in B.S. program can apply for B.S. + M.S. dual degree before senior year. To get the benefit of dual degree, students should use their open electives to take as many graduate courses as possible. Students in the dual degree program may apply a maximum of twelve credits taken at the graduate level (other than IASP 585) to fulfill the requirements of their undergraduate degree.