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

A: There are several different majors that ODU offers that in one way or another involve concepts and principles of cybersecurity. The most clear and obvious major that involves cybersecurity is Cyber Security itself. In this major, individuals will gather the necessary skills and knowledge regarding computer technology infrastructure and how to develop measures and security to protect these systems. However, Cybersecurity can also extend to other majors as well. For instance, while also an interdisciplinary major, the Cyber Operations major takes several concepts and ideas from cybersecurity and implements them in its course. Cyber Operations essentially focuses on all aspects of how to operate the “cyberspace”, both in the physical aspects and logical aspects, including ethically, legally, etc. From this major, cybersecurity is involved within this major through both the legality of how to properly operate computer systems in the workplace but also the ethical use of computers as well, such as with ethical hackers vs. malicious hackers in Cybersecurity. Another big major that contains elements of cybersecurity is Criminology & Criminal Justice, which not only focuses on the study of how to react to criminal offenders, but also the study of why criminal offenders commit crimes in the first place. Elements of cybersecurity are specifically rooted into the study of criminology through the presence of Cybercrime, as criminologists attempt to discover why online hackers and malicious organizations commit the crimes that they do and how to prevent these digital crimes from happening. Finally, the last major that incorporates elements of Cybersecurity is the Computer Information Sciences major. In this major, students learn about how to develop computer systems and software, and contains elements such as math, engineering, programming, etc. Cybersecurity is extremely important even in Computer Science due to the need for security within the systems/software that Computer Engineers create, so that they’re not susceptible to malicious attacks/hacks.