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This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of cyber security and human factors. Students will learn how to protect computer systems, networks, and data from various types of threats, including hacking, cyber attacks, and other malicious activities. The course will also cover the psychological and social aspects of cyber security, including the impact of technology on individuals and society. Students will gain hands-on experience with industry-standard tools and technologies, as well as learn how to analyze and mitigate security risks in real-world scenarios.
This course is ideal for students who are interested in pursuing a career in cyber security, including roles such as cyber security analyst, incident responder, or security consultant. The course is also suitable for professionals who want to expand their knowledge and skills in the field of cyber security.
Bournemouth University is a leading institution for cyber security education, with state-of-the-art facilities and expert faculty members who are actively involved in research and industry partnerships. The university's location on the south coast of England provides students with access to a vibrant tech community and opportunities for internships and networking. Additionally, Bournemouth University offers a range of scholarships and financial aid options to help students fund their education.
Learn to assess risk, anticipate and manage security incidents; develop and evaluate security procedures and policies to meet the needs of the computing and security sectors worldwide
Access to cyber security and digital forensics laboratories with state-of-the-art simulation and analytical systems relevant to intrusion detection, incident management, forensic analysis, and system penetration testing, where you can see where cyber-attacks are happening all over the world and how they are being stopped at BU
Acquire the skills to be ahead of the game, and become an expert in protecting information, assets, knowledge, and intellect.
Gain an understanding of the psychology of cyber security and human factors by investigating threats, vulnerabilities, and impact risk, by acknowledging the contagion of fear, uncertainty, and doubt and the importance of trust management and information assurance
Benefit from a work placement, which provides an excellent opportunity for you to gain first-hand work experience and apply the learning that you have acquired
Draw on our academics' expert knowledge, research, and recent developments in cyber security to gain awareness of current challenges and how to overcome them.
The standard requirements for embarking upon this course are:
A bachelor's Honours degree with 2:2 in any subject.
20 hours per week
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.
CyberPsychology: Explore the impact of the internet and social media applications on individuals, groups, organizations, and society, and human factors relevant to cyber security and online behaviors. You’ll learn to evaluate the principal features of human factors in current and planned online security systems and identify means of promoting safer online behavior.
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.
Research Methods & Professional Issues: Research requires a structured and disciplined approach at all stages. We’ll 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. We’ll also teach you about professional standards and ethical issues for research.
Individual Master’s Project: An opportunity to critically investigate and report on a particular issue.
Choose one option unit in semester 1:
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 that these fall into.
Blockchain & Digital Futures: This unit defines Blockchain technology, its business aspect, issues, objectives, and challenges, covering Blockchain horizontal and vertical scaling, fundamental basics of cryptography required for understanding the Blockchain technology concepts, different cryptocurrencies and their issues, challenges, and networks.
Choose one option unit in semester 2:
Security Event & Incident Management: Incident management capability means managing computer security events and incidents. Lectures and seminars in this unit will capture the concepts of event logging and collection. In addition, you’ll find branches; you’ll learn to define policies, processes, procedures, roles, and responsibilities and understand the issues of lead implementation of ISO 27001.
Accessibility & Assistive Technologies: This unit is an introduction to the concepts of accessibility and assistive technology and explores how technology can be used to support people with temporary, situational, or lifelong disabilities by helping to overcome challenges to their self-care, educational, vocational, and recreational independence.
IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component or equivalent.
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