Our society operates through a complex, pervasive, and persistent web of information and communication technology (ICT)-based infrastructures from the Internet to cell phones to organization-specific information systems across all sectors of our economy. We use these infrastructures to communicate; to conduct and track business and government transactions; to facilitate and understand many aspects of the relationship between governments and their respective citizens; to analyze data for trends and patterns in business, social, and international settings; and to use the outputs to make decisions in countless venues both public and private. These infrastructures hold data on all of us and the analysis of that data holds countless clues to how we do, could, or should interact with society, government, and the economy.

The Security and Risk Analysis is a major designed to provide unique, interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates areas of study in information assurance (both digital and physical security), intelligence analysis, and cyber forensics. It also will provide leadership and venue-specific skills through the options within the SRA major.