In this Sept. 12, 2019, photo, monitors check their screens in the Governor’s Office of Information Technology in Denver. With a projected 18 percent increase in demand for cybersecurity analysts the University of Scranton announced a new major this fall in Cybercrime and Homeland Security.
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SCRANTON — With a projected 18 percent increase in demand for cybersecurity analysts — with pay often ranging from $60,010 to $1,432,110 — the University of Scranton announced a new major this fall in Cybercrime and Homeland Security.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics expects a much higher than average growth in the job market, and the national homeland security workforce already exceeds 240,000, according to a media release from the university. With a boom in smart devices and everything from security cameras to light bulbs connecting to the internet, the odds of continued rapid growth are high.
“Over the past two decades, the expansion of the Internet and the availability of technological devices have resulted in an increase in computer crimes or cyber-related offenses. Numerous large scale attacks targeted Home Depot, Target, and, most recently, Equifax,” James Roberts said in the release. The university’s chair of sociology criminal justice and criminology said it all translates into an increased need “for trained law enforcement, prosecutors or judges with the skills to understand and investigate cybercrime.”
The courses are designed to give a broad expertise to match the complexity of field.
“The cybercrime and homeland security major will help students develop analytical skills to understand and analyze cybercrime in order to inform practitioners, policymakers, or public,” Roberts said, adding that cybercrime is “border-less.”
Required courses include Cybercrime, Cyber Law and Policy, Cyber Intelligence, Ethical Hacking, Foundation of Cybersecurity, Introduction to Network Security, Digital Forensic Investigation, Introduction to Homeland Security, Terrorism and Homeland Security and Emergency Management, among others.
“The main goal of the proposed program is to form the cybercrime investigators or digital forensic examiners or information security analysts and advocates of national security of tomorrow,” Roberts said in the release.
The new The new major will be within the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice and Criminology, in the College of Arts and Sciences.
For additional information, contact the University’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions at 888-727-2686 or email admissions@scranton.edu.
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