Career prospects for security professionals shows above average demand during the next 3 years. Reports and projections can be found on the Alberta Learning Information Systems database at: http://www.alis.gov.ab.ca.  Many other sites show this strong demand.

Graduates work in many technical, policy and management areas. Technical areas often involve server installation, testing, network design and penetration testing of servers and networks. Policy involves many areas such as implementing security policies, privacy policies and performing risk assessments. Management involves working at all levels to gain acceptance for security policies and procedures. At times this can involve implementing ISO standards for security throughout the organization.  Recently, the legal requirement for information technology security risk audits has created an ongoing and unfulfilled demand that alone will last for a predicted 7-8 more years (this is a worldwide byproduct of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation passed in the United States).

Students from our program have found jobs in all of these areas and 20% are already in management positions with another 11% doing billable consulting services.  The vast majority of the others are in systems analyst classifications (non-management level).