Ensuring the safety of critical information and assets is what the new cybersecurity analytics and operations degree is all about at Penn State York. This new four-year bachelor of science degree, which started this fall, is designed to help students master the technical skills, risk management strategies, and analytical methods used to safeguard data and systems,, while analyzing security and communicating cyberthreat and vulnerability issues to top-level decision-makers.
“There is a headline almost every day about a major cybersecurity breach somewhere in the world. It impacts corporations, governments, universities and every organization that is connected to the internet. No organization is immune, and every organization needs someone with expertise on how to combat this modern threat,” said Bill Cantor. assistant teaching professor in information sciences and technology (IST), and program coordinator for the IST program and the new cybersecurity analytics and operations degree. “The cybersecurity analytics and operations degree prepares students for this new battleground,” Cantor said.
Students with an interest in working on computers and their operating systems…
