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• The Cybersecurity Program is designed to assist students in achieving the following objectives:
• Produce highly qualified career-oriented graduates in alignment with regional and global needs through excellence in teaching, student learning, faculty scholarship and engagement in community development
• Contribute to advancement of human intelligence and to the promulgation and development of knowledge and mastery in the Cybersecurity domain.
• Prepare Cybersecurity professionals through the utilization of innovative educational processes, in a modern technological environment.
• Transform the graduate to play a pioneering and leading role in the community, enabling him or her to take responsibilities and contribute to solving problems through innovative thinking, collective work, reflection, and self-development.
• Link academic programs and specializations with actual requirements of the surrounding work environment. This is achieved by maintaining effective partnerships between the University and local business and industry.
• Guide research activities to create solutions for persistent problems in surrounding communities through applied research and technical consultation. The importance of performing basic scientific research for enriching human intelligence should not be neglected.
• Provide community service through continuous training and education.