MSC 5711 Practicum
In this capstone course, students will work individually or in teams and use the full range of skills, techniques, and concepts gained throughout the program to make a Board presentation. They will design, execute, and present a cybersecurity project/program of a selected company that had a major security issue over the past 5 years. Using publicly available information, students will go through the security life cycle of assessing their current strategy, identifying gaps, and developing a new strategy advocating for a significant investment, restructuring of cybersecurity, and making a few difficult choices/trade-offs. Project will cover management of strategy, policy, technology, people, best practice, and frameworks as well as compliance requirements. Students are evaluated based on the quality of their work, their ability to collaboratively develop and communicate in both written and verbal form, along with a question-and-answer session. It is recommended that students select their case study early in the program so that they can apply what they learn in each course as they move through the course.