Cyber Security (Taught)

This course is designed for graduate students and IT/ICT professionals who want to prepare for a successful career in computer, network and information security. It will help you to develop your specialist analytical, operational and development skills in both technical and socio-technical areas of cyber security.

This Masters programme will particularly suit students who have completed a first degree in a computing subject, such as computer science or business computing. It will also suit graduates who have completed a numerate subject with a significant computing component, such as applied mathematics, engineering or physics.

Objectives
The Cyber Security MSc aims to help you:

• Specialise in advanced aspects of cyber security (including cryptography and network security) and information security management and security audits

• Investigate penetration-testing techniques using Metasploit

• Engage with researchers to develop your scientific knowledge and skills

• Explore and specialise in the socio-technical aspects of security, cybercrime and digital forensics

• Critically evaluate the technical, social and management dimensions of computing systems and technologies from a security perspective

• Gain tangible experience that extends across all the security specific core modules

• Acquire the knowledge, skills and techniques needed as a professional in computer science.

• The course features real-life scenarios and a cyber-security challenge to provide you with hands-on experience in testing and analysing computing systems:

Semester 1 - become an ethical hacker. Your challenge: to identify flaws in a computer system by breaking its crypto components and retrieving sensitive information from an e-commerce company.
Semester 2 - become an investigator. Your challenge: to analyse network traffic, logs and detect attacks in a company's network. You must trace hackers and bring them to justice with concrete proof and reporting.

Accredited by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT for the purposes of partially meeting the academic requirement for registration as a Chartered IT Professional and on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of partially meeting the academic requirement for a Chartered Engineer.

This programme is certified by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) signifying our high-quality education in Cyber Security.