Named a National Center of Academic Excellence by the NSA, Department of Homeland Security, and Defense Cyber Crime Center — why would you go anywhere else?
Career Growth Projections
Cybersecurity + 31%, and Financial Examiners +7% through 2029
– Bureau of Labor Statistics
Founded in 1946 and known for its legacy of influence and expertise in financial, cyber security and economic crime — Utica College is a comprehensive, independent, and accredited private institution, located in the heart of central New York.
Our graduates are truly well prepared for today’s marketplace challenges by our exceptional faculty of real-world “doers” with extensive careers in the economic, cyber crime and cyber policy sectors:
Dr. Leslie Corbo
Director of the Cybersecurity undergraduate and graduate programs
Leslie Corbo, M.S., D.Sc., joined the Utica College faculty in 2012. Professor Corbo is currently the director of the cybersecurity undergraduate and graduate programs at Utica College. As an assistant professor of cybersecurity, she teaches coursework for multiple programs, including the B.S. and M.S. in Cybersecurity programs, the M.S. in Financial Crime and Compliance Management program, and the MBA program. Dr. Corbo holds a D.Sc. in Information Assurance and Cybersecurity from Capitol Technology University, and earned her B.S. and M.S. in Cybersecurity degrees from Utica College. Corbo has worked as a Senior Information Security Program Manager, a Cybersecurity Analyst, an IT-Security Analyst, and an Information System Security Manager on DoD and DHS Science & Technology efforts. Her responsibilities included network monitoring, computer forensics, security policy management, analysis, and incident response.
Her areas of research include phishing emails, sentiment and behavior analysis, and social engineering.
Donald J. Rebovich, Ph.D.
Professor of Criminal Justice
Donald J. Rebovich, Ph.D., is associate professor and director of the Fraud and Financial Crime Investigation Program at Utica College. He is also Executive Director of the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection (CIMIP) of Utica College.
Before coming to Utica College, Prof. Rebovich served as research director for the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and the American Prosecutors Research Institute. At NW3C he was responsible for directing the national analysis of Internet crime report data generated by the FBI's Internet Fraud Complaint Center and directing the National Public Survey on White Collar Crime. He is the author of Dangerous Ground: The World of Hazardous Waste Crime, which presented the results of the first empirical study of environmental crime and its control in the United States. He is also the assistant editor of the Journal of Economic Crime Management. His background includes research in economic crime victimization, white collar crime prosecution, and multijurisdictional task force development.
Prof. Rebovich has served as advisor to the U.S. Department of Justice on tribal technology and information sharing, and on environmental crime control. He obtained his B.S. degree in Psychology from the College of New Jersey and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Criminal Justice from Rutgers University.
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