{"id":23843,"date":"2017-02-22T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=23843"},"modified":"2017-02-22T02:07:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T08:07:45","slug":"apsu-offering-undergrad-and-grad-programs-in-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2017\/02\/22\/apsu-offering-undergrad-and-grad-programs-in-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU offering undergrad and grad programs in cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – The numbers, released earlier this year by the Pew Research Center, are a little disheartening. According to the center\u2019s recent survey on online security, 64 percent of Americans \u201chave personally experienced a major data breach,\u201d and 41 percent of Americans \u201chave encountered fraudulent charges on their credit cards.\u201d<\/p>\n

For government agencies and businesses, both large and small, the news doesn\u2019t seem to be getting any better.<\/p>\n

\"Job<\/a>

Job postings for cybersecurity openings have grown 91 percent from 2010-2014 according to Burning Glass Technologies.<\/p><\/div>\n

A recent U.S. State of Cybercrime Survey found that \u201cCybersecurity incidents are not only increasing in number, they are also becoming progressively destructive and target a broadening array of information and attack vectors.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Americans spending increasingly more time online, the demand for cybersecurity professionals has skyrocketed. The 2015 Job Market Intelligence Survey by Burning Glass Technologies found that \u201cjob postings for cybersecurity openings have grown 91 percent from 2010-2014.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Austin Peay State University, the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology has reworked its degree offerings to help supply businesses and governments with the skilled employees they need to counter this growing cybersecurity threat.<\/p>\n

This spring, the department began offering a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Assurance and Security, commonly known as \u201ccybersecurity,\u201d where students take newly developed classes, such as \u201cEthical Hacking and Offensive Security\u201d and \u201cIntrusion Detection and Prevention.\u201d The new concentration is part of a restructuring of the department\u2019s old B.S. in computer science degree into three new degrees (a B.S. in computer science, a B.S. in computer information systems and a B.S. in computer information technology).<\/p>\n

The department also expanded its Professional Science Master\u2019s Degree (PSM) into a new Master of Science (M.S.) with three concentrations, including data management and analysis, predictive analytics and information assurance and security (cybersecurity).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe trouble with the PSM, it\u2019s a nice degree, but you had to keep telling people what it was,\u201d Dr. Bruce Myers, chair of the department, said. \u201cInternational students didn\u2019t recognize it, and we\u2019re recruiting international students heavily with this degree.\u201d<\/p>\n

As demand started to grow in the cybersecurity field, Myers and his colleagues developed connections with the cybersecurity community in Nashville Tennessee. The department\u2019s faculty invited cybersecurity experts to campus to deliver lectures, and these individuals provided input for the new degrees.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey really encouraged us to develop our programs,\u201d Myers said.<\/p>\n

These are the most significant changes for the department since the creation of the computer science and information systems degree in 1979, but Myers said they were needed to better meet the world\u2019s growing demands for cybersecurity experts.<\/p>\n

Information on the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology is available online at www.apsu.edu\/csci<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – The numbers, released earlier this year by the Pew Research Center, are a little disheartening. According to the center\u2019s recent survey on online security, 64 percent of Americans \u201chave personally experienced a major data breach,\u201d and 41 percent of Americans \u201chave encountered fraudulent charges on their credit cards.\u201d For government agencies and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,5990,262,3902,825,14913,4950],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6cz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23844,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23843\/revisions\/23844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}