{"id":50643,"date":"2017-12-18T10:35:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?p=50643"},"modified":"2020-09-04T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:48:27","slug":"distinguished-lecture-puts-cybersecuritys-rise-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/distinguished-lecture-puts-cybersecuritys-rise-in-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Lecture Puts Cybersecurity\u2019s Rise in Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Distinguished<\/p>\n

As the founder, chairman, and CEO of CyberArk, a leading information security firm, Udi Mokady (MET\u201909) has seen the growth of the cybersecurity industry in recent years. Mr. Mokady charted his company\u2019s rise to prominence, and discussed the impact of his Metropolitan College education, as the keynote speaker of last month\u2019s 2017 Boston University Metropolitan College Distinguished Lecture, The CyberArk Story: From Startup to IPO and Beyond<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mokady described how his field has become more prominent since founding his company. \u201cIn the information security space at the time, the initial adopters and prospective customers were in the financial services\u2014the banks,\u201d Mokady said of his company\u2019s clientele in its early days. \u201cFast-forward to 2017, it\u2019s not the case. We see every single vertical that you can think of worry about information security. You\u2019ll find health care, manufacturing, education, telecommunication, and the list goes on,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

MET provides multiple avenues to gain entry into the professional field of cybersecurity, including the Master of Criminal Justice with concentration in Cybercrime Investigation & Cybersecurity<\/a>, the Master of Science in Computer Science with concentration in Security<\/a>, the Master of Science in Computer Information Systems with concentration in Security<\/a>, and the Master of Science in Telecommunication with concentration in Security<\/a>. The MS information security programs are certified by the Committee on National Security Systems.<\/p>\n

Watch a video of Mr. Mokady\u2019s lecture on our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As the founder, chairman, and CEO of CyberArk, a leading information security firm, Udi Mokady (MET\u201909) has seen the growth of the cybersecurity industry in recent years. Mr. Mokady charted his company\u2019s rise to prominence, and discussed the impact of his Metropolitan College education, as the keynote speaker of last month\u2019s 2017 Boston University Metropolitan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"featured_media":63819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103,59,97,37,76],"tags":[144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64685,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50643\/revisions\/64685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}