Analyze Security Risks in Complex Systems: Students will analyze technological, cyber, and physical risks within critical infrastructure and enterprise systems to identify vulnerabilities, threats, and potential impacts.
Evaluate Risk Using Quantitative and Qualitative Models: Students will evaluate security risks using probabilistic risk assessment, decision analysis, modeling, and simulation tools to support defensible decision-making.
Create Integrated Risk Mitigation Strategies: Students will create comprehensive risk mitigation and resilience strategies that integrate cybersecurity, infrastructure protection, operational safeguards, and organizational controls.
Formulate Security Strategy within Legal and Policy Frameworks: Students will formulate security strategies that align with public policy, homeland security doctrine, privacy law, and ethical responsibilities.
Evaluate Emerging Technologies and Strategic Implications: Students will develop the ability to identify and evaluate emerging technologies and evolving threat landscapes to inform long-term security strategy and organizational planning.
Synthesize Evidence and Deliver Executive-Level Security Communication: Students will synthesize technical, operational, and policy information to generate evidence-based security recommendations and deliver executive-level presentations and professional communications to both technical and non-technical stakeholders within high-technology organizations.
Lead High-Technology Security Organizations: Students will demonstrate and evaluate technology leadership practices to guide high-technology security organizations, foster high-performing teams, influence executive decision-making, and align security strategy with business objectives.
Applied Research and Problem Solving: Students will synthesize program knowledge to conduct primary and secondary research, identifying organizational problems to produce evidence-based, actionable recommendations through a final capstone project.

Security Technologies M.S.S.T.

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