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 of
smart devices for automation and controls leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and secured embedded devices. You
will be prepared to meet in-demand careers in industries including health care, cyber defense, 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
- Opening Fall 2020, Gannon’s Institute for Health and
Cyber Knowledge, or I-HACK, will integrate academics
and industry to design and protect cybernetic
intelligence and data systems worldwide.
- Learn within a high-quality facility using leading
technology in educational spaces including:
- Pierre McCormick Cyber Learning Center
- Cyber Attack Laboratory
- Cyber Defense Laboratory
- Cyber Inovation Laboratory
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.