About the Program
As part of the the Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs (OIGP), the Interdisciplinary Information Security (INSC) program is a research-driven interdisciplinary graduate program at Purdue University. INSC is structured around core classes that give students a fundamental grounding in the basics of cybersecurity and integrates perspectives from engineering and social sciences. The Information Security program is one of the world’s leading programs for research and education in areas crucial to the protection of critical computing and communication infrastructure. The program, which offers degrees through both the College of Liberal Arts and the Polytechnic Institute, works in collaboration with the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). CERIAS focuses on computing privacy, security, prevention, detection, policy and law.
Students graduating from this program are well-prepared for careers in industry or academia that span topics like:
- cybersecurity
- information security
- privacy protection
- security policy
- cybercrime investigation
The overall challenges that information security/cybersecurity face are not confined to one traditional topic area such as computer science but encompasses issues of (at least) software, hardware, policy, education, finance, psychology, ethics, communication, and linguistics.
Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Website
INSC Program Website
