Our Cyber Security degree focuses on protecting against cybercrime before it happens. You’ll develop specialisms through module choices to match your career goals. Optional subjects include data analytics, information security and digital crime scene investigation. You’ll also examine ‘hot’ cybercrime topics. These include the latest security crimes in the news, as well as big data and Cloud systems which have both significantly increased commercial security risks. Interaction, quality assurance, database systems, networking, web design, 3D effects, gaming, programming and animation.

On this one-year top-up degree you’ll build on your previous studies – with flexible module options so you can choose the subjects that build on your existing academic experience.
You’ll be able to specialise in a range of areas such as forensic computing, cyber security, human and computer interaction, quality assurance, database systems, networking, web design, 3D effects, gaming, programming and animation.

The course is designed for those who’d like to develop a career as a cyber security professional, or to take a leading technical or managerial role. It’s suitable for those from a computer science or information technology education background. The programme is also able to cater for those with no formal studies in computer science – but where you can demonstrate significant interest in cyber security.

This program educates students in a wide range of computing and networking skills, including hands-on experience with the hardware and software used in personal computers.