ONLINE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CYBER RISK MANAGEMENT

Advance your career and learn to shape corporate governance, business strategy, and organizational goals with an awareness of technology opportunities and cyber risk. Prepare to enhance your organization’s cyber awareness, risk management strategy, and business outcomes.

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Shape the Future of Business Strategy as a Cyber Leader

The online master’s in cyber risk management from the University of New Haven explores the concepts and processes required to manage technology, manage cyber risk, secure networks, and advance organizational goals.

Through the principles of leadership, risk management, crisis response, and communication, this program gives you the cybersecurity knowledge and leadership expertise you need to succeed in today’s technology-driven business world.

Finish your degree in just 1.5 years as you develop knowledge of crisis management, organizational development, risk management, and cybersecurity.

Who Is This Degree For?

This program is designed to develop leadership and management expertise for organizational, business, military, and government leaders as well as recent college graduates. New Haven’s cyber leadership degree prepares you to effectively manage cyber risk while leading business operations and IT service delivery in pursuit of your organization’s strategic vision and goals.

Graduates of this program are prepared to move beyond daily administrative work to manage cyber risk, leverage the business opportunities presented by a rapidly evolving cyber domain, and exercise new opportunities in information technology leadership and value creation.

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Career Opportunities with a master's degree in Cyber Risk Management

$171K

Chief Information Security Officers

15.2% Growth 2024-2034

$171K

Computer and Information System Managers

15.2% Growth 2024-2034

$125K

IT Risk Specialists and Information Security Analysts

28.5% Growth 2024-2034

The info provided is designed to show just a few of the many possible careers you could pursue with a master's degree in Cyber Risk Management. The data includes median national salaries and industry growth projections*. *U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates (September 2025). Salary data fluctuates frequently.

 

Program Outcomes

When you complete the online M.S. in Cyber Risk Management program, you will be prepared to:

 

Selected Courses and Programs

This course examines the impact of theories and research findings relevant to leadership and team building in organizations. The role of the leader and teams in organizations is discussed. The knowledge and skills required for successful leadership and team building are analyzed. An assessment of one’s own leadership and team building capabilities is completed.
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to network protocols, technologies and operations, and security. The core concepts of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, and an introduction to communication protocols at the application, and transport layers, Domain Name System, Network segmentation, Wireless and Cellular Networks, Content Distribution Networks are reviewed. Components of secure network architecture and operations, including managing identity and authentication, controlling and monitoring access are covered.
This course will provide an understanding and application of the methods for evaluating, analyzing, and managing risk within organizations. Students will learn to apply multiple risk-management tools to make high-quality decisions for balancing corporate risk and reward tradeoffs.
This course will examine the required skills and methods to gain full situational awareness of global cybersecurity issues that impact private and public sector companies. Students will learn the principles and methods of identifying and achieving the security, risk management, and resiliency objectives of an enterprise.
This course will use the United States’ defined critical infrastructure sectors as a guide for students to explore both systemic and non-systemic cybersecurity vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and dependencies. The students will initially develop an offensive plan to disrupt an organization’s information assets; this will be followed by analysis and planning to guard against such an attack.
This course examines the following: information asset governance, including frameworks and models from select standards boards as well as applicable laws and regulations; practices for identifying and classifying information assets; and techniques for protecting virtual information assets. The course also includes a non-technical overview of practical applications of cryptographic theory and code-breaking, including quantum computing, and the legal implications and liabilities for failing to do so.
A macro-level course that examines the intersection between business strategy, organizational leadership, and organizational change. Drawing from the disciplines of strategy, human resources management, organizational development, and leadership, this upper-level course engages students in the observation and analysis of the corporate executives’ perspective.
Effective crisis communication is essential to organizational resiliency and recovery in the case of a damaging cybersecurity event. This course prepares students to develop communications protocols, processes, platforms and messaging well before the onset of cybersecurity crises, disasters, and significant investigatory matters.
This course examines cybersecurity strategies and policies in a dynamic environment from the perspective of a cybersecurity executive within an organization. The course prepares students to engage in continuity planning for organizations. Governance issues will be integrated with risk management concerns and operational issues. Assessments with evidence-based practices will be used to study and evaluate cases.
The overall objective of this course is to have students apply the cybersecurity knowledge and critical thinking skills acquired through the program to a variety of contemporary and social issues that are featured in high profile current event cases.

The University of New Haven offers a wide variety of in-depth courses that create a transformational educational experience for our students. To view the complete list of courses you'll take while pursuing an Online M.S. in Cyber Risk Management, check out the Academic Catalog:

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All University of New Haven students have access to the many resources available through the University’s Career Development Center, which has been named one of the best in the nation by The Princeton Review.

From career assessments, networking, and job shadowing to on-campus interviews and salary negotiation, the Career Development Center provides the skills and connections to identify a meaningful career and an opportunity to pursue your passion.

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