navyguy2 wrote:Not an accurate comparison - main difference being that the Cyber center is teaching cyber from a military perspective vice a general cyber degree (like an economic/EE degree). The Navy is pretty much making Cyber Warfare Officers without a supporting career pipeline.
I have no idea where you're getting this idea that the major is specific to the military and that we're setting up midshipmen to fail. This is the major's description from the Cyber Center website:
"the Cyber Operations major provides a basic foundation in computer architecture, programming, data structures, networks, internet, database systems, information assurance, cryptography, and forensics. The technical aspects of the program are balanced with additional courses and electives emphasizing applications in areas such as policy, law, ethics, and social engineering."
How is that threatening in any way? That's really vanilla stuff that will set a graduate up not only for work within the military but also outside of it. It looks like a great major.
Here is a list of classes:
https://www.usna.edu/CyberCenter/Academ ... ourses.phpSY110 Cyber Security I
SY201 Cyber Fundamentals I
SY202 Cyber Systems Engineering
SY204 Systems Programming & OS Fundamentals
SY301 Data Structures for Cyber Operations
SY303 Applied Cyber Systems Architecture
SY304 Information Operations, Social Engineering, and Hacktivism
SY306 Web & Database Cyber Operations
SY308 Security: Fundamental Principles
SY310 Networking & Mobile Computing
... and more ...
All of these are relevant no matter what your job is. Some of them are heavy in coding (python, c++), others seem focused on engineering and systems design. I have no idea how that curriculum could be accused of being taught "from a military perspective" when corporations are being asked to defend their networks from intrusions day in and day out, and others are getting paid A LOT of money to red team those defenses for those companies.