About Lipscomb
Information Security Major
The field of information security has grown and evolved significantly in recent years. It is concerned with the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data regardless of the form the data may take: electronic, print, or other forms. Governments, military, corporations, financial institutions, hospitals and private businesses amass a great deal of confidential information about their employees, customers, products, research, and financial status. Most of this information is collected, processed, and stored on electronic computers and transmitted across networks to other computers. Protecting confidential information is a business requirement, and in many cases, also an ethical and legal requirement. The information security major, or degree program, offers a deep grounding covering the breadth of information security from theoretical frameworks through models to policies and ethical practices. It focuses on security challenges, threats and requirements for operating systems, computer architectures, networking protocols and organizations’ data and information. It is the ideal major for the student who is passionate about developing the ability to:
- Apply the technologies and procedures professionals use to secure business systems
- Identify the information security risks and create effective strategies to stop them
- Discover how information security is essential to organizational success
- Possess the knowledge to analyze the role of security School of Computing and Informatics 225 Computing and Informatics within an organization as well as educate corporate employees about their security responsibilities
- Analyze the professional, legal and ethical impact of information security on individuals, business organizations and society
- Apply industry standard techniques to secure large-scale networks and
- Gain the competencies necessary to plan, customize, and manage large-scale secure network and operating system configuration for optimum business applications and/or plans.
The minor in information security combines both theoretical concepts and technical skills to prepare students for a career in information security, including ethical hacking, forensics, networking, and security management.
B.S. degree program with embedded General Business Minor, Total Hours 130-132
Specific courses required
| General Education 44 hours | Hours | |
| Specific General Education Courses required by SEC major | ||
| 2503 | Economics | 3 |
| 3503 | Principle of Management ( to sub for BI 3123) | 3 |
| 4213 | Bible | 3 |
| Accounting (AC) | Hours | |
| 2503 | Financial Accounting | 3 |
| Entrepreneurship (ENT) | Hours | |
| 2503 | An Entrepreneur's Introduction to Business | 3 |
| Computer Science (CS) | Hours | |
| 1122 | Introduction to Computer Science | 2 |
| 1213 | Introduction to Computer Programming | 3 |
| 1233 | Object-Oriented System Design & Programming | 3 |
| 2233 | Data Structures and Algorithms | 3 |
| 2243 | Database Management Systems | 3 |
| 2313 | Computer Organization | 3 |
| 3323 | Operating System | 3 |
| Information Security (SEC) | Hours | |
| 2313 | Fundamentals of Information Security | 3 |
| 3313 | Introduction to Policy and Procedures | 3 |
| 3323 | Cryptography | 3 |
| 3333 | Business Continuity & Recovery Planning | 3 |
| 395V | Internship in Information | |
| 4163 | Senior Seminar in Information Security | 3 |
| 4313 | Database Security | 3 |
| 4323 | Network Security | 3 |
| Information Technology (IT) | Hours | |
| 2223 | Web Application Development I | 3 |
| 3313 | Network Principles | 3 |
| 3323 | Wireless Network and Mobile Systems | 3 |
| Marketing (MK) | Hours | |
| 3503 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
| 3573 | Consumer Behavior | 3 |
| Mathematics (MA) | Hours | |
| 1314 | Calculus I | 4 |
| 2314 | Calculus II | 4 |
| 2103 | Discrete Mathematics | 3 |
| 3123 | Mathematical Theory of Statistics | 3 |
Concentration Areas- 9 hours
| Computer Systems | Hours | |
| CS 3333 | Mobile and Distributed Computer | 3 |
| EECE 3813 | Digital Computer Design I | 3 |
| EECE 4254 | Microprocessors | 4 |
| Game Development | Hours | |
| CS 3253 | Game Development I | 3 |
| CS 3263 | Game Development II | 3 |
| CS 3273 | Collaborative Game Development | 3 |
| Information Technology Entrepreneurship | Hours | |
| ENT 3503 | The Entrepreneurial Enterprise | 3 |
| MK 3553 | Promotional Strategy | 3 |
| ENT 4453 | Managing the Entrepreneur Enterprise | 3 |
| Information Technology Management | Hours | |
| ITM 4003 | Principles of Information Technology Management | 3 |
| or | ||
| INF 3123 | Information Ethics and Policy | 3 |
| ITM 4013 | Telecommunications Network Management | 3 |
| ITM 4023 | Data & Knowledge Management | 3 |
| Mobile Computing | Hours | |
| CS 3243 | Mobile Device Programming | 3 |
| CS 3333 | Mobile & Distributed Computing Systems | 3 |
| CS 4013 | Future Mobile & Social Computing Systems | 3 |
| System Administration | Hours | |
| IT 3333 | Network Administration | 3 |
| IT 3343 | Database Administration | 3 |
| BA 3703 | Management Communications | 3 |
| Web Application Development | Hours | |
| IT 3223 | Web Application Development II | 3 |
| IT 3233 | Web Server Technologies | 3 |
| MK 3403 | Internet Marketing | 3 |