MSCY Curriculum

The curriculum provides the student with General Education and core study in Cybersecurity.

All students pursuing a Masters in Cyber Security (MSCY) Program must complete the following requirements:

Code	Course	Credits	Prerequisite

MSCY Curriculum


Core Courses

Code	Course	Credits	Prerequisite
MCY6000	Security Operations and Risk Management	3	None
MCY6001	Information Security Management and Governance	3	None
MCY6002	Research Methodology	3	None
MCY6003	Advanced Cryptography and Secure Architectures	3	None
MCY6004	Cyber-Physical Systems Security	3	None
MCY6005	Ethical Hacking	3	None
MCY6006	AI-driven Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering	3	None
Total credit hours			21

Electives* (Choose any 1 out of three)
Code	Course	Credits	Prerequisite
MCY6110	Cloud Security and Zero Trust Architectures	3	MCY6001
MCY6111	Big Data Analytics in Cybersecurity	3	MCY6004
MCY6112	Blockchain Security and Smart Contracts	3	MCY6003
Total credit hours			3
*Elective will be offered as per the class size policy

Thesis
Code	Course	Credits	Prerequisite
MCY6999	Master Thesis	6	Department Approval
Total credit hours for the MSCY Program			30

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MSCY Curriculum