UW Bothell Master of Science in Cyber Security Engineering
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The University of Washington Bothell’s Master of Science in Cyber Security Engineering helps serve the critical need for cyber security professionals. Hear program faculty and the associate dean of the UW Bothell School of STEM talk about the growing field of cyber security engineering, the program’s unique curriculum and the capstone project. Learn more at http://www.uwb.edu/cybersecurity.
Video Transcript:
[Michael]
Cyber security is a part of our critical infrastructure. It permeates everything, even if we’re not aware of it.
[Geethapriya]
There is such a huge demand for cyber security professionals all over the country and all over the world. There are all these critical infrastructures that's identified by the government, and every infrastructure – health care sector, industrial sector, banking sector, every energy power grid – every sector needs security professionals.
[Michael]
This program fills a critical need in our nation for cyber security professionals, and I think that we’ve developed a curriculum here that is unique for the Pacific Northwest and quite likely for the entire West coast.
[Geethapriya]
The curriculum here at UW Bothell in Cyber Security Engineering focuses on three different things: protection, detection and correction.
[Brent]
The curriculum is really designed to cover a large number of aspects of cyber security. There's elements of public policy and legal aspects that we cover. There's a very strong technical component where we talk about, you know, how, we talk about network security, cryptography – all the really hard technical sides of it.
[Geethapriya]
So the program here, Cyber Security Engineering, has a significant focus on what we call a secure development life cycle, so, or what's called as SDL, so which means from the time you start a product, whatever it is – software or any kind of development – from its initiation phase to the termination phase, there is security addressed at every step of it.
[Michael]
Our master’s degree culminates in a capstone experience where students will be developing, going through the entire secure development life cycle and developing a real project. And that project may be something that coordinates with faculty research or it may be something that is a real project brought from industry for them to work on.
[Brent]
And so, one of the advantages of doing this is you're putting something on your resume or your CV that nobody else is going to have.
[Michael]
UW Bothell CSS has a set of faculty who are at the forefront of the computing profession. We have faculty who are from research labs, government labs, industry, who have been steeped in academia for a long period of time and are doing cutting-edge research in a wide range of fields –– including a wide range of fields that hinge on cyber security. Along with our colleagues at the Seattle and Tacoma campuses, we’re working to develop the University of Washington to be the premier center for cyber security education in the American West.
2014-08-27 17:44:14
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