What is cybersecurity engineering?

Both are excellent, just different. In the cybersecurity engineering program, it's focused on the engineering. The way an engineer would think about problems. It's going to give you the ability to be an adaptable engineer and an adaptable professional, so that when you go into the real world, you're not just able to use a tool. You understand what the tool does and when the next tool comes along, you're able to adapt and use it effectively. And if you had to, you could write your own tool to do the same thing.

Cybersecurity is really a game of cat and mouse. You come up with a defense, cyber attackers are going to come up with a way around it. The cyber attack that was prevented doesn't make the front page. You don't go and brag about the things that don't happen. But, the the things that don't happen are what you take pride in. 

Anything you want! If you want to do it, we can make it happen. You can go really deep into one field. For example: I really care about health care records because people's medical information is very important to them. You can take that, and you can do a whole career based on medical record security. I think our national defense is really important. You can pursue an entire career around cybsersecurity defense.

‘If you're interested in working with government contractors or organizations, you could work with Northrop Grumman. If you're interested in the health care field, you could co-op with Cardinal Health. If you're interested in banking or finance, you could work with Fifth Third. These are all different areas that have different needs for their cybersecurity, but they give you a way to choose the domain you’re interested in.

More than anything else, you just need to have curiosity. That curiosity, to want to know: Why did that work like that? How did they get around that? How can I protect this? How does this technology work?