Information Security of the Information Age is Provided by Cybersecurity Experts
What is the Cyber Security Master's Program?
In the information age we live in, we use communication systems, computer systems, and networks very intensively. Almost all kinds of services and activities, including warfare, take place in cyberspace. Since massive amounts of vital data belonging to finance, health, defense, and the business world—most notably our own personal and private data—are stored and kept in the digital universe, protecting this data from malicious operations and attacks is of great importance for the security of individuals, companies, institutions, organizations, and states. Cyber security experts constitute the latest and most effective defense line to protect computer networks and electronic infrastructures against such attacks.
Cyber security is a subject that intertwines numerous fields such as managerial, psychological, sociological, historical, legal, political, military, and academic. Since cyber security has become an important requirement for both institutions, commercial companies, and states, Turkey has determined the principles, strategic targets, and basic applications and concrete steps to be taken to achieve these targets on a national scale with the National Cyber Security Strategy Document. The aim of the Üsküdar University Institute of Science and Technology Cyber Security Department Thesis and Non-Thesis Master's Programs is to train future cyber security experts needed in the public and private sectors by equipping them with the skills necessary to carry out their professions, as well as the necessary basic and applied knowledge; and to conduct pioneering scientific studies in the field of cyber security by applying our mental processes—including the ability to think, reason, learn, and behave using cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence—to the field of cyber security.
What Does a Student Who Successfully Completes the Program Learn?
What cyber threats might be in the digital universe, what security is, and how to use strategies, tools, and methods to achieve security,
The ability to think like a hacker while adhering to high standards of ethical behavior,
To try innovative paradigms and conduct research in scientific literature to lifelong develop the knowledge accumulation in the field of cyber security,
Critical thinking to creatively and systematically solve the ever-changing problems of cyber security,
The legal dimensions of cyber security,
Learns the skills required for leadership roles in cyber security-related departments of institutions and organizations.
What are the Courses Taken in the Cyber Security Master's Program?
Offered with the faculty members of Üsküdar University Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, and Electronics Engineering departments, this master's program aims to provide both basic and applied knowledge in this rapidly developing field, which has an interdisciplinary character by taking advantage of the different expertise of the faculty members.
Those who graduate from undergraduate programs that accept students with Equal Weight and Numerical score types in the university exam can apply to the Cyber Security Graduate Program. A Scientific Preparation Program is applied to students coming from outside the field of computer science when deemed necessary. The Scientific Preparation Program includes courses such as Discrete Mathematics, Introduction to Algorithms and Programming, Operating Systems, and Data Structures that prepare the student for field courses. After scientific preparation, in addition to compulsory courses such as Cyber Systems and Information Security, Introduction to Cryptography, Network Security, and Application Security, elective courses are offered from a rich course pool containing over twenty courses, such as Cyber Attack Techniques, Malware Analysis and Detection, Cryptocurrency Technologies, and Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security.
Students take three elective courses in the Cyber Security Master's Program with Thesis, while they take six elective courses in the Cyber Security Master's Program Without Thesis.
What are the Employment Areas of Cyber Security Master's Graduates?
Since the importance of secure data and secure information systems is increasing day by day, the field of cyber security is expected to create many new jobs in both the public and private sectors for the coming years. Graduates of the program can find jobs in positions such as information security specialist, secure software specialist, information security analyst, network security specialist, penetration testing specialist, vulnerability analyst, malware analyst, information security manager, etc. in the public and private sectors. Thesis master's graduates who want to pursue a career as a researcher or academician in cyber security can continue their doctoral education in cyber security, computer engineering, or other related fields.
