Course summary
This course will provide you with an advanced knowledge of cybersecurity topics and specialist areas including:
- Information security management
- Information risk management
- Implementation of secure systems
- Information assurance
- Incident (breach) management
- Business continuity.
You'll develop your research skills and be able to apply them in your career as a cybersecurity professional. The topics you'll study will build your interest in the many applications of cybersecurity, including:
- AI for cyber defence
- Ethical hacking and penetration testing
- Cloud security
- Secure software development
- Machine learning for threat detection
- Digital forensics
- Threat intelligence
- Security automation
- Governance, risk and compliance
- AI governance and responsible AI
- Risk management and governance
- Human factors, adversarial behaviours, authentication
- Security operations and incident management
- Malware and attack technologies
- Forensics, formal methods for security
- Cyber-physicals systems security
- Software security
- Web and mobile security and secure software lifecycles.
This course is also available to study through our Global Partnerships.
MSc Applied route
This course is available with an applied route. Here, you can put your new skills into practice by applying to undertake a placement year, subject to availability. You can find your own placement, or choose to work on a professional practice project in our Digital Incubator. You could also work on a research-based project with one of our academic research teams.
The placement will enable you to develop your research, knowledge and technical skills. It will also improve your interpersonal, team working, and project management skills. This route will boost your academic performance and future employability prospects.
We can't guarantee external placements for all students but we'll support you in securing one. We'll offer professional or research-based practice projects if an industrial placement isn't possible.