MSc Cyber Security

The programme aims to provide you with advanced and specialist knowledge and skills in the field of cyber security. Your MSc Cyber Security will cover topics such as Information Governance and Security, Information Assurance and Risk Management, Wireless Networks and Security, Network Security and Ethical Hacking for Cyber Security. You will also develop your research and project management skills, in particular to support your preparation for your MSc project. In your final semester you will complete a major individual project, where you will receive one-to-one tuition and supervision from a relevant academic supervisor.

This project will provide you with a platform to undertake a substantial piece of individual research. To do this you will utilise appropriate advanced research, critical evaluation and synthesis techniques.

This programme is also available part-time or as MSc Cyber Security with Advanced Practice which includes either an internship, consultancy project or research project.

Ultimately, as a graduate of MSc Cyber Security you will be able to:

• Demonstrate complex and specialised knowledge and skills in the field of cyber security
• Appreciate innovations, advances and major issues at the frontiers of cyber security and their implications
• Deal with complex issues both creatively and systematically, and show originality in tackling and solving problems
• Use and evaluate a variety of software, tools and techniques relevant to cyber security practices
• Work both individually and as a member of a team, recognising different team roles and multi-cultural environmental issues
• Communicate balanced judgements effectively (in writing and verbally) at the appropriate business and technical level with users, management, customers and technical specialists, justifying work in the content of wider theories and practice, including when considering incomplete or ambiguous data
• Critically understand computing systems in relation to cyber security issues
• Act in a professional and ethical manner in the development and use of computing systems
• Demonstrate professional attributes, including self-reflection, showing initiative, sound judgement, analytical ability, problem solving, the ability to conceptualise, theorise and research complex issues which advance understanding, and the ability to critically evaluate their own work and the work of others
• Demonstrate the knowledge, skills and attributes to take leading roles within the computer science industry and will have developed highly transferrable skills that promote employability and lifelong learning
• Satisfy the educational requirements of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT for professional membership