Select four other majors offered by ODU and explain how those majors relate to cybersecurity.

Criminal Justice and cybersecurity are both tied together with a common goal in mind, to focus on preventing crime. Much like someone who may pursue a career in the criminal justice field, a cybersecurity professional may collect evidence or study crimes from the past. A criminal justice major may also work in tandem with a cybersecurity professional when locating an attacker or preventing future attacks. With cybercrime reaching a whopping $7 billion a year cybersecurity and criminal justice will only continue to grow together to help tackle the new challenges of a digital world.

Sociology and Psychology are related to cybersecurity due to the need for understanding human behavior. Cybersecurity is not a technology problem, but a societal problem. 88% of all data breaches are caused by human error. With a team of people knowledgeable on human behavior we can learn the victim precipitation of a breach or even how we can teach awareness at a company wide level. These social sciences also come in handy when trying to identify what kind of people may commit an attack, whether it be an insider or outsider threat.

By the end of 2022, 94 zettabytes of data will be transferred over the internet. With that much data being transferred there will be a need for someone to analyze that data and that is where the data science majors come in. With more and more organizations who are beginning to collect data online, including medical records, data scientist will have to rely on cybersecurity professionals to help protect their data’s integrity, availability, and confidentiality. According to the Ponemon Institude study, 84% of healthcare organization experienced a cyber attack and just last year alone these institutions averaged 43 attacks. This kind of data breach can result in millions in fines and a huge loss of personal medical records. These data scientists need help protecting their data and without a cybersecurity professional it will be impossible.