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MSc PG Dip PG Cert Cyber Defence and Information Assurance (Defence)

  • DeadlineStudy Details:

    MSc: 11 months full-time or up to three years part-time; PgDip: up to two years part-time; PgCert: up to two years part-time

Course Description

Designed to develop military and defence industry professionals who can lead in a defensive cyber environment, to effectively exploit the threats and opportunities of cyberspace at the organisational level. The course focuses on understanding and articulating the strategic and executive-level responses to serious present and emerging threats in the information domain.

The course will specifically focus on responses to serious, present, and emerging threats in the information domain. The course enables the student to gain an organisational view of cyber from a defence and security perspective, the domain, the drivers, and constraints. Whilst a technical understanding is of value, the course is designed to ensure that the bigger, contextual, aspects of cyber is understood thereby enabling decision making in relation to cyber to be undertaken within an organisation.

Entry Requirements

A first or second class honours degree; or 3rd class degree with three years’ relevant experience; or pass degree with five years’ relevant experience; or HND/C with seven years’ relevant experience.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

This qualification will take you on to become one of the next generation of managers who can understand and effectively manage and exploit the threats and opportunities of cyberspace at the organisational level. Crucially, it will also enable graduates to communicate cyber issues to senior management or executive board level.

The course is directly relevant to those wishing to improve their knowledge and skills as, or those aspiring to become, a CIO or CISO.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

All the modules in the following list need to be taken as part of this course.

  • Foundations of Cyber

Elective modules

One of modules from the following list need to be taken as part of this course

  • Understanding Risk
  • Cyber Attack – Threats and Opportunities
  • Social Technologies
  • Data-led Decision Support
  • Emerging Technology Monitoring
  • Incident Management
  • Cyber Law
  • Information Operations
  • Cyber Deception
  • The Human Dimension
  • Critical Networks and Process Control
  • Systems Thinking for Organisational Viability

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