Cybersecurity and Risk Assurance, MS

Location(s): Online

The Master of Science in Cybersecurity and Assurance is a 30 hour program designed to equip professionals with the skills necessary to navigate and mitigate today’s complex cyber risks while ensuring organizational resilience and compliance. Through an interdisciplinary approach, this program integrates cybersecurity management, financial risk analysis, and business leadership principles to foster a deep understanding of how to safeguard digital assets and maintain operational integrity in dynamic environments.

In addition, students will acquire stackable micro-credentials in a progression of embedded awards through to achieving the full degree. The embedded micro-credentials are offered as certificates in two different areas, Digital Fraud and Risk Management and Business Challenges and Cyber Risk Management.

Program Requirements: 30 Credit Hours

Major Core Requirements: 30 credit hours

Major Core Requirements: 30 Credit Hours

ACCA 5300 - Governance and Risk Assurance Theory Credit Hours: 3
ACCA 5302 - Fraud Examination Awareness Seminar Credit Hours: 3
ACCA 5321 - Forensic Accounting Strategy Credit Hours: 3
ECOA 5305 - Monetary Economics Credit Hours: 3
GBAA 5304 - Management Information Systems Credit Hours: 3
GBAA 5308 - Problems in Business Admin Credit Hours: 3
GBAA 5330 - Cyber Risk & Assurance Strategy Credit Hours: 3
MGTA 5307 - Managing Organizational Change Credit Hours: 3
MGTA 5340 - Management of Information Assets Credit Hours: 3
MGTA 5380 - Cybersecurity and Risk Assurance Capstone Credit Hours: 3

Micro-Credentials: Embedded Certificates

Certificates are great marketing tools in today’s world, allowing students to show skill acquisition to employers or potential employers along the way to finishing the degree. Students will acquire stackable micro-credentials in a progression of embedded awards through to achieving the full degree. The embedded micro-credentials are offered as certificates in two different subject areas: Business Challenges and Cyber Risk Management and Digital Fraud and Risk Management.

Digital Fraud and Risk Management

This certificate acknowledges that students have mastered the skills of forensic accounting, corporate governance, and risk management.

ACCA 5300 - Governance and Risk Assurance Theory Credit Hours: 3
ACCA 5321 - Forensic Accounting Strategy Credit Hours: 3
MGTA 5181 - Digital Fraud and Risk Management Credit Hours: 1

Business Challenges and Cyber Risk Management

This certificate acknowledges that students have mastered the skills of management of information systems, organizational change, and cybersecurity.

GBAA 5304 - Management Information Systems Credit Hours: 3
GBAA 5330 - Cyber Risk & Assurance Strategy Credit Hours: 3
MGTA 5307 - Managing Organizational Change Credit Hours: 3
MGTA 5182 - Business Challenges and Cyber Risk Management Credit Hours: 1

Total Hours: 30

Major Core Requirements: 30