Online Masters in Cybersecurity or Computer Science? I’m debating between applying to Georgia Tech’s OMS in CS vs CMU’s MS Infomation Security Policy and Management. My undergrad was in CS at a private school and I’ve had no Cyber experience before big4 cyber work. Lately I’ve been finding the security program strategy/transformation work to be repetitive & boring and interested in getting back to more technical work like appsec. Currently a Senior Manager with 10 YOE. 167k TC. Thoughts/advice?

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OP neither is worth it for you. They don’t teach you the good stuff in university. I have a master in info sec that isn’t really applicable because everyone wants certs. If you truly wanna learn. There’s a some great offensive courses on udemy and that’s worth your time. Also ur pay is great already so masters won’t really boost it.

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I am starting the OMS Cyber program this fall but I will be in the information security track. Currently while my title is cyber consultant but in all my projects I am being used as developer just because of my background. Cyber does interest me but I honestly have not done any cyber work in my current post that’s why I am going with this program. One thing to note: from my research and asking people who went through the program I know that all their online program is rigorous and very challenging, that’s what stopped me from applying to their analytics masters program. I think the same would apply for their CS program. Have you looked into their info sec concentration under cyber? It is some technical, you definitely get to code, and it’s cyber focused.

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If you are managerial I would go the Cyber route as it will probably be less technical and more focused on cyber security strategy. if you are a technical leader that develops new tools (coding) go CS.

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