MSc Internet of Things with Cyber Security

• Mobile & Wireless Networks: Mobile and wireless networking technologies are ubiquitous nowadays. A key issue facing enterprises today is how to harness the potential of mobile and wireless technologies to enhance the operational effectiveness of the business and illuminate potential opportunities. This unit reviews the broad spectrum of relevant technologies (e.g., WiFi, ad hoc networks, cellular networks, etc.), examines their operating principles/protocols and applicable standards, and the use of these networks in different contexts and scenarios. The unit also explores these networks' main challenges and how they fit into the latest networking paradigms.

• Wireless, Sensor & Actuator Networks: You will explore the operating principles, standards, design, and configuration of WSANs.  Future and emerging paradigms – such as Mobile Crowdsensing Systems, and technologies, like Wireless Power Transfer in ad-hoc networks, will also be addressed.  

• Security and Privacy in IoT: Smart objects, IoT applications, and their enabling platforms are often vulnerable to security attacks and changing operating and context conditions that can compromise the security of some of their components (e.g., local sensors, network components, application-level components). They also generate, use, and inter-relate massive amounts of personal data in ways that can potentially breach legal and privacy requirements. This unit will develop your ability to understand and produce security architectures for IoT-related networks and systems.

• Research Methods & Professional Issues: Research requires a structured and disciplined approach at all stages. We will help you to develop critical research skills in many areas, from project proposals and planning to critical analysis of research findings, academic writing, and dissemination. Ensuring you give due consideration to professional standards and ethical issues in research.

• Individual Masters Project: You will develop an understanding of the characteristics and implications inherent in the solution of a complex, real-world problem within the context of a substantial, independently-conducted piece of work.

Option units (choose one semester 1)

• Human Factors: Soft systems, human factors integration (HFI), training, trust, organizational learning, information, and knowledge management will be examined through case study analysis. You'll also conduct situational awareness and workload measurements in trials, experiments, and exercises and apply user experience (UX) techniques to evaluate interactive systems.

• Security by Design: Security must be addressed as early as possible when building a system or planning organizational change. However, security never seems to be a driving concern when engaging in innovation. When security is addressed, we discover how hard building security is. In this unit, you'll have an opportunity to build security into the design and specification of secure systems and the broader socio-technical context these fall into. 

Option units (choose one semester 2)

• Security Information & Event Management: The unit covers aspects of the current and emerging threat landscape, incident handling and operations of Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs), and the importance of information sharing for incident management.

• Cyber Security: Develop skills and knowledge for cyber security. Material, lectures, and seminars in this unit capture concepts of cyberspace ecosystems and the safety of socio-technical systems. The unit also covers the life cycle of cyber security mechanisms, including the design, development, management, and, most importantly, how they're sustained.