CYSE 494

Entrepreneurship in Cybersecurity

This course is designed to help students enhance their personal and professional development through innovation guided by faculty members and professionals. It offers students an opportunity to integrate disciplinary theory and knowledge through developing a nonprofit program, product, business, or other initiative. The real-world experiences that entrepreneurships provide will help students understand how academic knowledge leads to transformations, innovations, and solutions to different types of problems.

After completing an entrepreneurship, a student/entrepreneur will be able to:

  • Identify how to use knowledge they have accumulated from their general education and major coursework to create non-profit programs, products, businesses, or other innovations.
  • Apply disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge to the process of innovation.
  • Demonstrate the ability to integrate professional and interdisciplinary knowledge to produce new programs, products, businesses, or other innovations.
  • Describe how products/businesses/programs related to their career interests are created and influenced by different disciplines.
  • Assess the effectiveness of innovations
  • Communicate effective solutions to societal problems to stakeholders.

Course Material

 

 For this class I was able to use real life security situations in order to come up solutions that could be applied in the workplace.  Being able to work with other students in the same major as me in solving problems while each of us still having our own approach. From that I was able to really practice more problem solving in a group setting and still working on my own project well. Being able to work with those in the profession in order to be able to learn what ways of thinking was a very exciting experience. Also, just being able to learn the process of innovation and entrepreneurship gives a new view of things on things that the professional world need and will need in the future.  Below is the final essay for the class the lays out a potential problem in banking and possible solutions that I think could help: 

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