Senior Seminar in Cybersecurity

Catalog description

This course develops and integrates essential professional skills within a cybersecurity research and problem-solving framework. These include presentation of ideas through written and verbal communication, high-level teamwork, and analyzing and solving complex computing problems. Students will select a complex computing problem in a cybersecurity field of their choice. Working alone and with a team, they will draw on and apply principles of computing to design and evaluate computing-based solutions to the problem. Students will develop critical thinking and teamwork skills as they work through sustainable solutions, applying cross-cutting concepts such as confidentiality, integrity, risk, and adversarial and systems thinking. Students will develop their professional identities and responsibilities, enriching their capacities to make informed judgments which account for legal, ethical, diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility principles important in the cybersecurity profession.