University of California, Irvine Extension recently announced an articulation agreement with University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to help security systems professionals attain a master’s degree from the Cybersecurity program at the UMBC Graduate School and College of Engineering and Information Technology. This agreement will allow graduates of UC Irvine Extension’s Information Systems Security Certificate Program to apply specified academic course credits towards UMBC’s Cybersecurity master’s program. “Due to a rise in security breaches, cybersecurity is becoming an increasingly important field,” said Dave Dimas, Ph.D., director of engineering, sciences, and information technology at UC Irvine Extension