Cyber Security
The study of the cybersecurity specialization aims to graduate professionally trained technical cadres who can repel all electronic attacks against networks and information systems to maintain privacy at a high level while protecting electronic information and rationing from thefts and electronic crimes that have witnessed a significant increase in recent times at the level of individuals and institutions and states.
Program Mission
To offer competitive higher education in Cyber Security within a supportive academic environment to prepare qualified Cyber Security specialists with vital employability skills, make research contributions, promote community engagement, and participate in realizing the Kingdom's Vision 2030.
Program Objectives
- Improve the quality of teaching and learning experiences, the quality of learning resources, and the quality of basic facilities, equipment, and supporting infrastructure.
- Provide support to students through the improvement of academic, social, psychological, and professional advising, counseling, and supportive services.
- Enhancement of the performance of faculty members both professionally and academically.
- Improvement of the program’s administrative efficiency and processes and procedures.
- Preparation of competent and qualified graduates with vital employability skills demanded in the labor market.
- Enable graduates to demonstrate core knowledge in cybersecurity using essential technologies, and basic research skills.
- Enhance students’ critical thinking, problem-solving, communication and teamwork skills.
- Improve students’ awareness of ethical values, principles of professional conduct, independence, and autonomy.
- Contribute to the field of cybersecurity through the production of quality research in alignment with OC and the program’s research priorities.
- Contribute to the local community through services, programs, and consultations.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Identify fundamental cybersecurity concepts, principles and theories in relation to the underlying computer - physical and mathematical sciences.
- Explain analytical and research methodologies used in cybersecurity systems.
- Recognize ethical values, cyber laws, safety provisions and precautions, principles of professional conduct in the field of cybersecurity.
- Reiterate common security issues in networks and computer systems of IT infrastructures.
- Define security controls sufficient to provide a required level of confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA) in a given IT infrastructure.
- Diagnose cybersecurity events and incidents related to computer systems and digital evidence, using appropriate research methods.
- Design creative solutions to common cybersecurity issues and threats in order to reduce or mitigate risks, and according to a set of security requirements.
- Critically analyze the behavior of cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities using mathematical, quantitative and computational tools.
- Critically evaluate security levels of IT systems and infrastructures.
- Effectively communicate inquiries, research results and solutions to complex issues in cybersecurity with a range of audiences, using appropriate numerical data, graphical representations and media technologies.
- Effectively participate in cybersecurity teams and think-tank groups in solving cybersecurity problems and in decision making processes, in order to advance the discipline and society.
- Demonstrate ethical values, safety provisions and precautions, principles of professional conduct in cybersecurity workplace.
- Act responsibly, independently and autonomously in both work and learning situations of cybersecurity.
Career Opportunities
- Cyber Security Specialist.
- Vulnerability Assessment Specialist.
- Cyber Security Developer.
- Cyber Security Risk Specialist.
- Compliance Specialist in Cyber Security.
- Cyber Security Controls Evaluator.
- Cyber Security Auditor.
- Cyber Security Researcher.
