Cybersecurity, MS—Align (Boston)

Graduatemajor2027 catalogComputer Information ScienceBoston36 semester hours totalverified parse

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Fundamentals

• All of:
  • CS 5001 — Intensive Foundations of Computer Science
  • CS 5003 — Recitation for CS 5001

Discrete Structures

• CS 5002 — Discrete Structures

Cybersecurity

• CY 5001 — Cybersecurity: Technologies, Threats, and Defenses

Additional Align Courses

• CY 5003 — Foundations of Software Security

Foundations

• CY 5010 — Cybersecurity Principles and Practices

Technical Track

From the catalog

Complete 4 semester hours from the following:

• Choose 4 semester hours from:
  • CY 5120 — Applied Cryptography
  • CY 5130 — Computer System Security
  • CY 5150 — Network Security Practices
  • CY 5770 — Software Vulnerabilities and Security
  • CY 6120 — Software Security Practices
  • CY 6740 — Network Security
  • CY 6760 — Wireless and Mobile Systems Security

Contextual Track

From the catalog

Complete 4 semester hours from the following:

• Choose 4 semester hours from:
  • CY 5200 — Security Risk Management and Assessment
  • CY 5210 — Information System Forensics
  • CY 5240 — Cyberlaw: Privacy, Ethics, and Digital Rights
  • CY 5250 — Decision Making for Critical Infrastructure
  • CY 6200 — Special Topics in IT Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Capstone

• CY 7900 — Capstone Project

Electives

From the catalog

Complete 12 semester hours from the following:

• Choose 12 semester hours from:
  • CRIM 6200 — Criminology
  • CRIM 6202 — The Criminal Justice Process
  • CRIM 6262 — Evidence-Based Crime Policy
  • CS 5008 — Data Structures, Algorithms, and Their Applications within Computer Systems
  • CS 5200 — Database Management Systems
  • CS 5500 — Foundations of Software Engineering
  • CS 5600 — Computer Systems
  • CS 5610 — Web Development
  • CS 5700 — Fundamentals of Computer Networking
  • CS 5800 — Algorithms
  • CS 7580 — Special Topics in Software Engineering
  • CS 7805 — Complexity Theory
  • CY 5065 — Cloud Security Practices
  • CY 5120 — Applied Cryptography
  • CY 5130 — Computer System Security
  • CY 5150 — Network Security Practices
  • CY 5200 — Security Risk Management and Assessment
  • CY 5210 — Information System Forensics
  • CY 5240 — Cyberlaw: Privacy, Ethics, and Digital Rights
  • CY 5770 — Software Vulnerabilities and Security
  • CY 6120 — Software Security Practices
  • CY 6200 — Special Topics in IT Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance
  • CY 6740 — Network Security
  • CY 6760 — Wireless and Mobile Systems Security
  • CY 7790 — Special Topics in Security and Privacy
  • POLS 7341 — Security and Resilience Policy
  • PPUA 6503 — Managing People in Public and Nonprofit Sectors

Concentrations (choose 1)

Concentration in Criminology

• CRIM 6200 — Criminology
• CRIM 6202 — The Criminal Justice Process

• From the catalog

  Complete one of the following:

  CRIM elective

• One of:
  • CRIM 6262 — Evidence-Based Crime Policy
  • CY 5210 — Information System Forensics
  • CY 5250 — Decision Making for Critical Infrastructure

GPA requirements

• 36–44 total semester hours required Minimum 3.000 GPA required

Substitutions

Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:

• CRIM elective to be approved by director/associate director of MSCY.

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under cybersecurity-msalign-boston, and the official page is the authority.