Embed Your Future in a Secure Career with a Cyber Engineering Degree from Gannon University
Gannon's cyber engineering program will provide you with the knowledge and skills to become a highly sought-after professional and meet an increasing demand in a vast array of industries, such as: communication, energy, health care, manufacturing, military, robotics and transportation.
- Region’s first cyber engineering degree.
- Gain the knowledge needed to take various certification tests and become more marketable in the field.
- Learn from experienced faculty experts who are professionals in their fields.
Learn to Lead the Way in Cyber Engineering
- Course and project work emphasize hardware and software design and helps students learn to develop the secure embedded systems for our knowledge economy.
- Apply protective technologies and forensic techniques to analyze security of systems and maintain operations in the presence of threats to protect data intelligence.
- According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual wage is approximately $121,000.
Experience an Exceptional Learning Environment
- Gannon's Institute for Health and Cyber Knowledge, or I-HACK, integrates academics and industry to design and protect cybernetic intelligence and data systems worldwide. Find out more about I-HACK and take a tour.
- Learn within a high-quality facility using leading technology in educational spaces including:
- Pierre McCormick Cyber Learning Center
- Cyber Attack Lab
- Cyber Defense Lab
- Cyber Innovation Lab
I-HACK
Join us on the forefront of innovation at Gannon’s newly opened I-HACK, a cutting-edge facility designed to advance cyber education.
Cyber Attack Lab
Deploy White Hat Hacking techniques in a controlled environment to ethically simulate and study real-word attacks to prevent them in the future.
Cyber Defense Lab
Learn how to protect digital lives by assessing systems for vulnerabilities, detecting scams and designing solutions against emerging cyber threats using well established cyber defense tools
Cyber Innovation Lab
Gain hands-on experience experimenting on IoT connected devices to design and build secure data using next-generation quantum-resistant cryptosystems. Learn how to protect security platforms enabled with AI and ML using cybersecurity.
Inspire Your Academic Success
Gain real-world knowledge through key cyber engineering courses including:
- IT Security: Core concepts needed to secure an organization's network as an IT security specialist.
- Cyber-Physical Systems: Integration of mechanics, electronics and software in a rapid-prototyping system-based approach.
- Secured Embedded Systems: Hands-on approach to understanding cyber-attacks using resource-constrained embedded devices, architecting and implementing a root of trust (RoT) embedded system from power-up, firmware launching and boot-loading.
- Trusted OS: Gain project experience with a secure system as an administrator and user.
Achieve Your Possibilities
Students will gain advanced knowledge and skills in computer network security principles and cyber forensics that will enable the design of software to maintain secure systems. Gannon's cyber engineering program aims to educate students to:• Apply security principles and practices to the design, implementation and operations of the physical, software and human components of cyber systems.
- Apply protective technologies and forensic techniques.
- Analyze and evaluate components and systems with respect to security and to maintain operations in the presence of risks and threats.
- Consider and understand legal, regulatory, privacy, ethics and human behavior topics.