Graduate

Degree Programs

Security Informatics

M.S. Requirements

The M.S. in Security Informatics (MSSI) offers an interdisciplinary focus that combines coursework in mathematics, protocol analysis, and system and network security, with business and economics, social engineering, human-computer interaction, and other disciplines. In addition, MSSI students choose a concentration in financial risk, psychology, organizational theory or a particular focus area is computer science like embedded systems.

CURRICULUM

A total of 36 credit hours is required for this degree. Individual program choices will vary. The program can be understood as consisting of four elements:

  1. Security foundations
  2. Professional practice
  3. Computing networks
  4. Concentrations in an area of interest

Courses

  • INFO-I 591 Graduate Internship (6 cr.)

Required Security Informatics Courses (12 cr.)

  • INFO-I 520 Security for Networked Systems (3 cr.)
  • INFO-I 525 Organizational Informatics and Economic Security (3 cr.)
  • INFO-I 533 Systems and Protocol Security and Information Assurance (3 cr.)
  • INFO-I 536 Foundational Mathematics of Cybersecurity (3 cr.)

Computer Networking Electives (9 - 12 cr.)

Electives or Concentration (6 - 9 cr.)

Concentration electives (9 cr.)

Concentration electives can be from any school or college at Indiana University with courses related to the student’s area of interest. The Kelley School of Business teaches graduate courses on management of technology and information systems in organizations. The School of Public and Environmental Affairs teaches courses on risk behavior, policy, and decision-making. The Department of Telecommunications also offers courses in information economics, media studies, and information policy.

Suggested courses and concentrations:

  • Complex Systems
    • ILS-Z 604 Topic: Information Networks (3 cr.)
    • INFO-I 586 Artificial Life (3 cr.)
    • INFO-I 590 Topic: The Simplicity of Complexity (3 cr.)
    • INFO-I 601 Introduction to Complex Systems (3 cr.)
  • Embedded Systems Concentration
    • CSCI-B 441 Digital Design (4 cr.)
    • CSCI-C 335 Computer Structures (4 cr.)
    • CSCI-P 415 Introduction to Verification (3 cr.)
    • CSCI-P 442 Digital Systems (4 cr.)
    • CSCI-P 545 Embedded and Real-Time Systems (3 cr.)
  • Social Informatics
    • INFO-I 504 Social Dimensions of Science Informatics (3 cr.)
    • INFO-I 506 Globalization and Information (3 cr.)
    • INFO-I 651 Ethnography of Information (3 cr.)
  • Music Informatics
    • INFO-I 545 Music Information Representation, Search and Retrieval (3 cr.)
    • INFO-I 547 Music Information Processing: Audio (3 cr.)
    • MUS-K 503 Electronic Studio Resources 1 (3 cr.)
  • Business Concentration
    • BUS-F 421 Derivative Securities and Corporate Risk Management (3 cr.)
    • BUS-F 525 Corporate Financial Risk Management (1.5 cr.)
    • BUS-K 490 Independent Study in Decision Sciences (1–3 cr.)
    • SPEA-V 541 Benefit-Cost Analysis of Public and Environmental Policies (3 cr.)
  • SPEA Concentration
    • SPEA-E 560 Environmental Risk Analysis (3 cr.)
    • SPEA-V 507 Data Analysis and Modeling for Public Affairs (3 cr.)
    • SPEA-V 673 Public Policy Analysis and Management Science/Operations Research (3 cr.)
  • Criminal Justice Concentration
    • CJUS-P 430 Law and the Legal System (3 cr.)
    • CJUS-P 595 Data Analysis in Criminal Justice I (3 cr.)
    • CJUS-P 596 Data Analysis in Criminal Justice II (3 cr.)
  • Psychology Concentration
    • PSY-P 533 Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis I (3 cr.)
    • PSY-P 647 Decision Making under Uncertainty (3 cr.)
    • PSY-P 651 Perception/Action (3 cr.)
    • PSY-P 654 Multivariate Analysis (3 cr.)
    • PSY-P 820 Social Perception (3 cr.)
  • Information and Library Science Concentration
    • ILS-Z 514 Social Aspects of Information Technology (3 cr.)
    • ILS-Z 532 Information Architecture for the Web (3 cr.)
    • ILS-Z 636 Semantic Web (3 cr.)
    • ILS-Z 642 Content Analysis for the Web (3 cr.)
    • ILS-Z 643 The Information Industry (1–3 cr.)
    • ILS-Z 671 School Media (3 cr.)
    • ILS-Z 680 The Book to 1450 (3 cr.)
  • Telecommunications Concentration
    • TEL-T 504 Introduction to Telecommunications Policy Studies (3 cr.)
    • TEL-T 512 Communication and Politics (3 cr.)
    • TEL-T 532 Economics of the Media Industries (3 cr.)
    • TEL-T 575 Directed Group New Media Design Project (3 cr.)
    • TEL-T 610 The Networked Society (3 cr.)
    • TEL-T 650 Telecommunications and the Constitution (3 cr.)

Concentrations can also be regional or cultural. Indiana University is home to exemplary centers and institutes for geographical and regional studies. Any of the cultural and regional studies can be combined with the study of network security; given the inherently global nature of the challenges. Some examples include:

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