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Cyber Operations and Resilience (B.A.S.)

Bachelor Degree
Boise State University
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Instruction Method
Online
Time to Degree
4 years

About the Program

The Bachelor of Science in Cyber Operations and Resilience prepares you to work in environments where anticipating, detecting, mitigating and managing cyber, physical and interdependencies infrastructure threats is crucial. This program focuses on the interplay of systems, technical, program management, and policy skills necessary to design, remediate, and operate resilient information systems, physical systems and networks. A holistic system-level thinking approach is at the heart of the program. The asynchronous online curriculum provides for a number of achievement modalities: pathways for high school students (traditional and career & technical education), community college graduates and working professionals with an undergraduate degree in any field; stackable certification pathways for learners to achieve career alignment; and a curriculum that awards experiential learning credits in affordable manner.

Program Requirements

  • Core Requirements take the following courses, take 27 credits
    27 credits
    take the following courses:
    CORE400 - Cyber Systems Thinking
    3 credits
    CORE405 - Cyber Project Management and Design
    3 credits
    CORE470 - Cyber Risk Management
    3 credits
    CPS301 - Information Assurance and Critical Thinking
    3 credits
    CPS401 - Defensive Security
    3 credits
    CPS402 - Offensive Security
    3 credits
    CPS403 - Recovery and Forensics
    3 credits
    CPS411 - Essentials: IT Network Practit
    3 credits
    CPS412 - Foundational Essentials for IT Cybersecurity Practitioners
    3 credits
  • Cyber Depth Electives take the following courses, take 4-7 credits
    4 - 7 credits
    Take at least one course from:
    CORE401 - Cyber Risk Assessment
    1 credit
    CORE410 - Applied Cybersecurity Programming
    1 credit
    CORE411 - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    1 credit
    CORE413 - Internet of Things Architecture
    1 credit
    CORE420 - Cyber Security Operations Center
    1 credit
    CORE421 - Cyber Business and Regulatory Operations
    1 credit
    CORE422 - Cyber Red and Blue Teams
    1 credit
    CORE450 - Cyber Threat Intelligence
    3 credits
    CORE460 - Cyber Resilience Systems Design
    3 credits
  • Applied Learning take the following courses, take 2-6 credits
    2 - 6 credits
    Take at least 1 course from:
    CORE484 - CORe Experiential Learning
    1 - 3 credits
    CORE485 - CORe Prior Learning
    1 - 3 credits
    CORE486 - CORe Certification
    1 - 3 credits
    CORE493 - Internship
    1 - 12 credits
  • Finishing Foundations take the following courses, take 3 credits
    3 credits
    Take the following course:
    CORE480 - Cyber Capstone (FF)
    3 credits
Grand Total Credits
120

* Please note that you must meet with an advisor each semester in order to verify degree completion time as well as online course offerings for the program requirements.