Online Master of Arts in Global Security - Cybersecurity

The class engages interdisciplinary approaches to conflict and international security with a focus on defining a strategic approach to short, medium and long-term global trends. The class reviews key philosophical and social science theories of war and conflict drawn from international relations, sociology and conflict studies. It considers the historical development of global security from the post-WWII era to the present including a consideration of the role of states and non-state actors.

This class provides an overview of cybersecurity with a focus on its relationship to broad national and international security issues. The class explains the core concepts of cybersecurity, cyberwar, cyberpolitics and cyberpower. It introduces key ideas of internet architecture and complexity, the basics of cyberattacks and defense, public governance and protection, private management and questions of espionage and the potential for escalation within cyber domains.

This class focuses on the complex nature of cybersecurity threats as well as emerging trends within the field. The class covers issues of hacking and data breaches, protecting critical infrastructure and cybercrime and includes key case studies on these issues. It also links social theory and policy discussions related to social media and interconnectedness as well as key legal and ethical issues associated with cybersecurity.

This class focuses on the special challenges associated with preparing for cybersecurity threats and enabling resiliency from a global security perspective. The class provides an overview of cyberspace and its characteristics with discussions of core vulnerabilities, types of attackers and modes of targeting, as well as broad strategic issues of deterrence. The class also reviews key ideas and modes of encryption, the theoretical and practical challenges of attribution and a broad, interdisciplinary overview of policies to ensure and enable resiliency.

This class focuses on ideas and mechanisms for comprehensive cybersecurity planning and strategy. The class provides an overview of relevant institutions and actors (NSC, NSA, Cyber Command, internet management entities) and modes of threat analysis. It engages public and private cyberpolicy using concrete cases studies and reviews international cyber and internet regulation and strategy, the overlapping roles of non-state actors and modes of conceptualizing the future of cybersecurity.