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In response to the growing need for professionals skilled in the protection of digital information, the University of Alabama will offer a degree in cyber security, inform Adam Jones, Communication Specialist, Research at The University of Alabama.
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| The University of Alabama's new bachelor's degree in cyber security, offered beginning this fall, will provide rigorous instruction to prepare students for jobs in this rapidly growing field. Photo: contributed |
“We are always looking for opportunities to expand our degree offerings in response to the needs of industry and the desires of our prospective students,” said Dr. Chuck Karr, dean of UA’s College of Engineering. “Certainly, we expect the new degree program in cyber security to produce graduates who will accept important jobs in Alabama, and across the nation, in this area that is becoming critical to a wide array of entities. Our faculty have worked hard to ensure the degree program will be of value to our industrial and government partners.”
UA will be the first institution in the state to offer an undergraduate cyber security degree within a computer science department, making UA’s track unique in its focus on the technical aspects of protecting digital information from cyber attacks. In addition, students in the degree will be exposed to the hardware side of the field through required computer engineering courses...
UA cyber security students will gain the specific knowledge needed be on the forefront of designing, identifying and proposing new security strategies. The new degree program will boost students’ abilities to land jobs, such as chief information security officers, security architects, security engineers, vulnerability assessors, information security analysts and security consultants.
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Source: Alabama NewsCenter
