A background in computer and information security can provide you with numerous job choices. These include as a forensic analyst, security architect, malware analyst, network security engineer, security analyst, computer crime investigator, security operations center analyst, security auditor, intrusion analyst, among many others.

If you’re committed, however, to improve on what you do, you can enroll in an advanced degree program such as a master’s degree. At Northcentral University, you can pursue the Master of Business Administration degree program with focus on Computer and Information Security. This will help you upgrade your skills in your area of expertise particularly at this time when so many threats exist in cyberspace.

Specific courses covered in this master’s degree program are introduction to computer security, corporate computer and network security, cyber forensics, risk management in information assurance and security, contingency planning and disaster recovery for the security professional and computer information and security. The cyber forensics course will tackle the process of collecting, examining and preserving evidence of computer and information crimes. It will help students come up with the necessary audit procedures that will eventually equip them with the skills to protect the corporate assets of the company they’re working for.

The risk management course, on the other hand, will train the students on examining the nature of risk and its application to information security, threats and how to assess risk variables. Also to be covered are the security life cycle and safeguard analysis. And as a final requirement, students will have to submit a written research project focusing on a workplace problem.