  {"id":100,"date":"2024-12-13T15:24:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T20:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:22:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T18:22:03","slug":"specialization-in-cyber-security","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/ma-program\/specialization-in-cyber-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Specialization in Cyber Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2025\/05\/Cybersecurity-1600-\u00d7-700-px.png); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Specialization in Cyber Security\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>In the current national and geopolitical context, compounding factors underscore a growing concern for Canada\u2019s cybersecurity. The cybersecurity risk Canadians face is increasing year over year, as more individuals and organizations move online and more public and private services are digitized.<br>In tandem with this trend, the frequency and complexity of cyber threats are growing. Moreover, an increasing number and range of malicious cyber actors now have relatively easy access to exploitation tools and tradecraft to access networks and online information for purposes of intelligence, power, profit, or intimidation. It follows, then, that <strong>cyber incidents have and will continue to have an increased impact on Canadians and Canadian governments and businesses<\/strong> as operations and services are disrupted, privacy is breached, critical information is stolen, critical infrastructure is attacked, recovery costs soar and reputational damage is incurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>new Cybersecurity Collaborative Specialization<\/strong> builds on ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´\u2019s internationally recognized excellence in the many and diverse facets of cybersecurity. Working alongside professors from across the disciplines \u2013 including international affairs, critical infrastructure protection, computer engineering, computer science, and information technology \u2013 and with private and public sector cybersecurity stakeholders from across Canada, students participating in this specialization will grapple with building stronger technological systems, processes, and platforms, developing international norms, laws, and standards for cyberspace, and better consider the nexus between human rights, governance, security, and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-50\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/npsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2025\/02\/Cybersecurity-Pathway-Jan-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cyber Security Specialization Pathway<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the current national and geopolitical context, compounding factors underscore a growing concern for Canada\u2019s cybersecurity. The cybersecurity risk Canadians face is increasing year over year, as more individuals and organizations move online and more public and private services are digitized.In tandem with this trend, the frequency and complexity of cyber threats are growing. 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