Capacity Building through Interdisciplinary Degrees in Cybersecurity

该项目通过在本科和研究生阶段开发新的跨学科网络安全学位课程，建立史蒂文斯在信息保障和计算机安全教育方面的能力。虽然计算机科学系提供网络安全研究生证书，但史蒂文斯理工学院的科学，技术管理，工程或数学课程都不允许学生获得网络安全的实际学位。据信，有单独的学位课程将使史蒂文斯吸引更多的学生到该计划，以及为这些学生提供教育，准备他们更彻底的职业生涯作为信息保证和计算机安全专业人员。实现这一目标的一个重要步骤是提供跨学科教育，将核心计算机科学与传统科学和网络安全以及工程和技术管理相结合。新提议的学位具有跨学科性质，旨在建立和扩大目前的努力，以更好地满足这些需求。尽管如此，新的学位课程主要是基于计算机科学，因为计算机安全和信息保证专业人员需要有很强的理论和实践背景，以便为他们的职业生涯做好准备。

This project builds Stevens' capacity in information assurance and computer security education by developing new interdisciplinary cybersecurity degree programs on both the undergraduate and the graduate level. Although the computer science department offers a graduate certificate in cybersecurity, none of the available programs in science, technology management, engineering, or mathematics at Stevens Institute of Technology allow the students to earn an actual degree in cybersecurity. It is believed that having separate degree programs will allow Stevens to attract more students to the program, as well as providing these students with an education that prepares them more thoroughly for careers as information assurance and computer security professionals. A major step in achieving this goal is to offer an interdisciplinary education, integrating core computer science with conventional sciences and cybersecurity, as well as with engineering and technology management. The newly proposed degrees are interdisciplinary in character and are intended to build on and extend current efforts to better suit these needs. Nevertheless, the new degree programs are primarily based in computer science, as professionals in computer security and information assurance need to have both strong theoretical and practical backgrounds in order to be well prepared for their careers.