PGCSEC: PgCert in Cyber Security
Duration: 20 days total | Fee: On Application
Enrolling for September 2010
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 and the latest industry knowledge to deliver a comprehensive cutting edge programme. The course is composed of 4 taught modules and successful students will be able to progress onto the full MSc Programme.
This programme is perfect for those wishing to develop their technical skills but who cannot commit to the full MSc programme. Designed for the continuing professional development market, this programme equips 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 and leading industrial qualifications. There are also options to study Cybercrime and Law. The strength and uniqueness of this programme lies in it's multi-disciplinary nature, drawing upon expertise from Applied Social Science, Law and ICT Focus.
Elements of the technical curriculum will build upon certification programmes such as CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) 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 syntheise and evaluate complex information.
Module 1: Information System Penetration and Countermeasures
This module aims to furnish students with the skills and understanding to test IT infrastructures for vulnerabilities to malicious attack.
This course builds upon Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) from EC-Council and as such provides an ideal way to study for this professional qualification.
The purpose is to enable students to understand the attack process in order for them to be able 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 2: Information System Forensic Investigation
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 an awareness would enable them to analyse business threats and the risks they pose within well known frameworks and take countermeasures to those threats 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 importance of Information Risk Management in the Information Systems Security arena.
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Module 3: 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
enable students to 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 4: Information System Security Management
This module develops technical investigative skills with regard to the gathering of
information from compromised systems, and builds upon on the Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator certification (CHFI) from the ECCouncil.
The module will cover skills and technologies that a security professional requires in order to gather and draw inferences from data regarding attacks - either as they occur or as they unfold. Students will develop the skills and knowledge required to carry out an investigation in a range of situations and on differing devices.
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