Campus Security

Carnegie Mellon already has two master's-level programs that are good starting points for continuing education for CISO wannabes.

By Kathleen Carr

June 01, 2004 — CSO — Carnegie Mellon already has two master's-level programs that are good starting points for continuing education for CISO wannabes. Their Information Networking Institute offers a master of science in information networking, which they've had in place for 15 years, and a master of science in information security technology and management, which builds on an undergraduate's technical foundation and offers specialized infosec and network security along with fundamental business courses, according to Dena Haritos Tsamitis, associate director at Carnegie Mellon's Information Networking Institute. The first batch of students from the university's newest master's program will graduate in December 2004.

This 16-month program has four main components: Three aim to develop competency across management, technology and security. The fourth is a graduate research project. Here's a sample curriculum for the school's master of science in infosec technology and management program.

Management component

• Information security risk management
• Managerial economics and business management

  Technology component

  • Introduction to telecommunication networks or packet switching and computer networks
  • Operating system design andimplementation or distributed systems

  Security component

  Introduction to computer security plus (choose two):

  • Network security
  • Secure software engineering
  • Applied cryptology

  Graduate research component

  Information Networking Institute graduate project and INI research seminar

  SOURCE: WWW.INI.CMU.EDU

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