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How to Get the Most Out of Your Security Degree

There are a wide range of security degrees:

Criminal Justice

Focuses on fundamentals of the criminal justice system as well as technical skills used in criminal justice. Legal procedures, criminal evidence, and criminology are also studied.

Cybersecurity

Focuses on protecting computers, networks, programs, and data from unintended and unauthorized access, change or destruction.

Public Administration

Learn to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of public policies, bolsters knowledge of government structure, administrative management, fiscal budgeting, and community dynamics.

Security

Description: There are a few variations of security degrees, but in general they prepare you to analyze basic security theories, manage, prepare and critique security personnel, craft emergency response plans, and construct risk analyses.

With all four specialties available as certificates, associates degrees, bachelors degrees, masters degrees, and PhD’s

And an even wider range of security jobs

Jailers/correctional officers: $39,000

Police officers: $56,980

Criminal Investigators & detectives: $70,000

Information Security Analysts: $86,170

The Department of Homeland Security shows the vast range of security careers

Dept of Homeland Security:

Citizenship and Immigration Services

-Asylum officer

-Immigration officer

Customs and Border Protection

-Border Patrol agent

-Import specialist

Federal Emergency Management Agency

-Federal coordinating officer

-Program specialist

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

-Law enforcement instruction specialist

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

-Detention and deportation officer

-Police officer

-Immigration enforcement agent

-Security specialist

Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate

-Protective security adviser

-Intelligence operations specialist

-IT specialist (information security)

-Security specialist

-Telecommunications specialist

Officer of the Inspector General

-Attorney

-Auditor

Science and Technology Directorate

-Biological scientist

-Chemist

-Computer scientist

-Engineer

-Physicist

Secretarial Offices

-Human resources specialist

-Policy Analyst

Transportation and Security Administration

-Criminal investigator

-Intelligence operations specialist

-Program and management analyst

-Transportation security screener

U.S. Coast Guard

-Contract specialist

-Engineer

US Secret Service

-Criminal investigator

The security industry is booming

Global cybersecurity spending by year:[3]

2013: $66.4 billion

2014: $71.1 billion

2015: $76.9 billion

Department of Homeland Security Spending by Year:[4]

2014: $60.4 billion

2015: $61.1 billion

2016: $64.8 billion

Consider narrowing down your choices.

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