MSCSEC: Masters in Cyber Security

Duration: 40 days total | Fee: £7220 (Home/EU) : £14580 (Non-UK/EU)

This programme has been designed to meet the requirements of the current and next generation of IT security specialists. It blends world class academic teaching with the latest industry knowledge to deliver a comprehensive cutting-edge programme. The course consists of eight taught modules and a research dissertation. This is a part time MSc Programme split over two years.

The overall aim of the programme is to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to work within an IT security profession, combining advanced technical skills with an understanding of the management of risk, types of crime relevant to IT systems, criminal behaviour, methods of intervention and detection and the legal frameworks surrounding IT Systems Security. Its strength and uniqueness lies in the multi-disciplinary nature of the programme, drawing upon expertise from Applied Social Science, Psychology, Computing and ICT Focus.

Elements of the technical curriculum will build upon certification programmes such as CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) and CHFI (Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator) thus giving successful students the added opportunity to go on and gain industry-recognised qualifications.

Students will also benefit from the development of skills that are essential for someone working within IT security. They will develop advanced problem solving and planning skills, critical self-reflection skills and the ability to reflect upon the motivation of others, appropriate research and investigative skills and the ability to synthesise and evaluate complex information.

Module 1: Information System Security Management

This module focuses on the current Information security technologies and best practices building upon on the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) from (ISC)². The module will give students a wide appreciation of security within information technology. It is an ideal preparatory course to go on and take the assessment associated with the CISSP qualification. The module will particularly focus on the impact that security has in the corporate environment and how to effectively apply security on a networked environment.
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Module 2: Information System Penetration and Countermeasures

This module aims to provide students with the skills and understanding required to test IT infrastructures for vulnerabilities to malicious attack. This course builds upon Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) from EC-Council and provides an ideal way to study this professional qualification. This module will help students understand the attack process in order to develop IT infrastructures more able to withstand attack. The students will be given first hand practical experience of using tools and techniques to carry out such an attack in order to better understand it.
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Module 3: Information System Forensic Investigation

This module aims to develop technical investigative skills with regard to the gathering of information from compromised systems, building upon on the Certified Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI) from EC-Council and providing an ideal way to study for this professional qualifiaction. The module covers the skills and technologies which a student requires to gather information and draw inferences from that data regarding the attack as it occurred or as it unfolds. Students will develop the skills needed to apply the knowledge to carry out an investigation in a range of situations and on differing devices.
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Module 4: Information System Risk Management

This module focuses on the current Information System Risk Management processes and best practices. In order for security staff to be effective it is important that they have a firm understanding of risk management strategies. Such awareness allows them to analyse the business threats and risks they pose within well known frameworksand take countermeasures commensurate with the level of risk they carry. This module will identify key frameworks, international standards and best practices involved in Risk Assessment, Business Impact Analysis, Asset Identification and Risk Management. The ultimate aim is to develop the students critical appreciation for the importance of Information Risk Management in the Information Systems Security arena.
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Module 5: Cybercrime

The aim of this course is to provide students with a critical understanding of criminological and sociological approaches to crime and deviance on the Internet (or 'cybercrime'). Students will explore the range of links between crime, deviance, 'information communication technologies' (ICTs), and ICT users. The course will help students advance their knowledge of 'cybercrime' through the study of criminological and sociological literature, and cybercrime case studies organised into specific topics, including cyber-stalking, online offences against children, and cyberterrorism. Such topics will enable key concepts and theories in this area to be used by students in a critical and imaginative manner. Finally, the course will help students understand how ICT users, the IT industry, criminal justice professionals, and policy makers become entangled in attempts to define and regulate networked ICT use within broader society.
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Module 6: Introduction to Law for Cyber Security Specialists

The aim of the module is to give students a basic working knowledge of relevant legal systems, sources, institutions and personnel.
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Module 7: Network and Systems Security

This course is designed to allow students to experience the complexities of designing secure systems and protocols. The focus is secure system and protocol design and implementation.
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Module 8: Crime and Criminal Behaviour

This module seeks to provide students with a better understanding of the individuals that they investigate by introducing them to current theories and research on crime and criminal behaviour. The module pays particular attention to crimes that are relevant to the contemporary climate, including drug use and crime, fraud, organised crime, and terrorism.
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Module 9: Dissertation

This module allows students the opportunity to research and develop their critical thinking in an area directly related to the programme. Students are required to undertake an extended piece of research to integrate their learning and apply it to an original research field or question. This work must produce an original piece of critical thinking, centred on significant experimental and/or archival study that reflects existing research within the field.
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