Old Dominion University (ODU) offers an array of college majors from music and arts, mathematics and accounting, to computers and engineering. Today all these majors rely on cybersecurity in one form or another. Some need a higher sense of the term while others not so much. Four majors that stand out are: Information Science/Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science and Criminal Justice/Criminology. Each of these four majors rely on cybersecurity in their unique field differently.

Information Science can include any form or information or data. Information and associated data are a huge aspect of everyday life. This could be in the form of a restaurant cooking recipes or a financial information of a large bank. How this information and data is stored, protected, and viewed is extremely important. Cybersecurity comes in to help with this by implementing frameworks to ensure everything is stored properly, backed up somewhere either in cloud networking or on offline hard-drives and computer databases and protected in that not just anyone can access the information to view or alter it. Cybersecurity can offer further protection with Information Technology by implementing processes within a network or computer systems to again offer the same protection mentioned with Information Science. Cybersecurity offers a multi-layer protection by safeguarding a network, if an individual infiltrates this network, security is then in place to limit or deny access to the information within that network or computer system. Engineering is such a broad term with many disciplines under its ‘umbrella’. Mainly cybersecurity is needed within critical infrastructure. Think of telecommunications such as cell phone towers. In todays technologically advanced society so much is reliant on this technology to communicate with individuals or computer systems. A cyberattack on a cell tower could wreak havoc on a coverage area if it is not adequately protected with a form or cybersecurity. Transportation systems could be affected by something as simple as shutting down traffic lights or communication signals sent on subway systems or trains. Computer Science and cybersecurity go together. As computer programs are being written or fixed, cybersecurity can be implemented at the foundation level. Safety protocols can be written into the coding to make it almost impossible or extremely difficulty to crack into thus adding another layer of protection that reverts to information science/information technology. Finally, Criminal Justice/Criminology. Is a cyber attack or hack into a system a crime if nothing was stolen or affected? This is where the field of criminal justice/criminology come in in defining what is considered a crime in the cyberworld.