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

1. Computer Information Sciences

• Computer Information sciences relates to cyber security with how it allows you to gain a deeper understanding of the computer’s information processing and the problems that come along with the technology. The cyber security field consists of protecting those computer information assets. If you know the computer’s whole processing from the inside out, it allows you to become much better at your job.

2. Cybercrime

• Cybercrime major relates to cyber security in how it gives students the knowledge of how crimes can be committed electronically through targeted users, a computer, network, etc. In cyber security, you’ll be learning how these crimes can affect the computer and user. In cyber security, you’ll learn how to combat these problems.

3. Data Science & Analytics

• As a data and science analytics major, you’ll gain the skills to manage and collect data to give you the experience needed to make responsible and informed decisions that could jeopardize or save your career/company. As a cyber security major, you can relate to the data science and analytics field with how important it is to make educated and well thought out decisions in orser to protect the data within the system and network. 

4. Cyber Operations

• A cyber operations major teaches you how to perform and use the utilization of computers and devices to perform defensive and offensive cyberspace operations. This relates to the field of cybersecurity, with how it teaches you the dangers of what can happen to your device and what steps are needed to effectively protect your computer.