This course approaches cyber security from a holistic point of view – helping you to understand cyber security from multiple perspectives. By highlighting key principles such as ‘defence in depth’ and by drawing on national level cyber frameworks and guidelines, we aim to expose you to a complete picture of the intentions, motivations, scope and current state-of-play of the cyber security sector.

Across the course, you’ll develop knowledge and practical skills that support the protection of systems and data on a variety of levels (such as individual, business, critical national infrastructure) – all supported by a sound understanding of computing principles. You’ll not only engage in the technical competencies needed to uphold and enhance organisational resilience, but also learn the essentials of effective cyber security operations.

You'll explore planning methods and tools, study cyber security policies and law, investigate strategies of defence and offence, and gain an appreciation for human factors and training needs.

The range of potential careers in cyber security is huge and ever-growing; from a cyber crimes analyst with the police to roles in government, or responsibility for enterprise cyber security solutions in the public and private sector. Roles include, amongst others:

• Penetration tester
• Cyber security engineer
• Cyber security consultant
• Systems administrator
• Cyber threat intelligence analyst
• Cyber security forensics analyst.