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PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

--To prepare highly qualified, industry-ready specialists and professionals
in the area of Cybersecurity.

--To cover the conceptual and practical aspects of Cybersecurity.
--To Develop and promote research skills in the area of Cybersecurity.
--To empower students with the abilities and skills to cope with emerging

technologies and approaches in the area of Cybersecurity.
--To develop a deep appreciation for Cybersecurity and empower students

with the skills and techniques needed to build secure information
systems.
--To develop and promote the skills needed to perform practical security
assurance tasks, vulnerability mitigation, intruder detection, risk analysis
…etc.
--To develop and promote the skills needed to design and build secure
networks.

PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES | THE ABILITY TO:

--Define and use security models to abstractly describe security properties
of computer and communication systems in the face of current,
emerging, and potential threats.

--Explain cryptographic techniques and primitives, and be able to use
them in providing security guarantees.

--Describe and use tools for preserving the privacy of confidential data, as
well as explain some of the social and legal aspects of privacy

--Experiment with software and hardware, to explore flaws in systems;
explain performance issues with a focus on their trade-off security; and
use standard security-related tools and packages.

--Devise a mitigation plan against both external and internal vulnerabilities
to enterprise computer infrastructures and sensitive digital assets.

--Analyze and evaluate multiple risk assessment methods and strategies.
--Compare and contrast the legal and ethical aspects of cybersecurity at

different levels.
--Evaluate the results of a security assessment to assess the security status

of a network or computer system.
--Conduct in-depth research into a specific CYS topic, including finding

and integrating relevant research results of others.
--Integrate systems-level-infrastructure thinking into CYS problem

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