Cyber Security Engineer or Auditor

(MS in Information Technology or Software Engineering)

Companies and institutions like the FBI, NSA, CIA, etc, now realize how important it is to have a highly paid expert team test their IT infrastructure, attempting sophisticated attacks, and fixing holes that they discover. The holes could be at any level: personnel, network, RFID copying, operating system, issues in particular programming languages. This is a high stakes game!

Consider these courses:

• COMP 443: Computer Networks
• COMP 447: Intrusion Detection
• COMP 448: Network Security
• COMP 449: Wireless Networks and Security
• COMP 410: Operating Systems
• COMP 413: Intermediate Object-Oriented Development
• COMP 471: Programming Languages
• COMP 453: Database Programming
• COMP 417: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing
• COMP 450: Microcomputer Design and Interfacing

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