Why choose Herts?

• Industry Accreditation: Accredited by the British Computer Society (BCS) enabling graduates to register at The Chartered Institute for IT as a chartered IT professional.
• Employment Prospects: Graduates work as business analysts, consultants, software engineers, and application developers for organisations including Capgemini, Optoma Technology and Ocado.
• Work Placement Opportunities: You have a one-year paid?industry placement option. Previous students have worked for organisations including Apple, Intel and Microsoft.

 

About the course

One of a range of degrees from the taught master's programme at the Department of Computer Science

 

This course considers current research and practice in cyber security. You will build the fundamental and advanced aspects of cyber security in terms of theory, practice, policy and security standard to enable critical cyber security decision marking, the extant threats to current and emerging systems and networks and the effective countermeasures to such threats in compliance with information security management standards, and the social, legal and ethical issues relating to cyber security in the context of digital forensics, information security management, penetrating testing and cyber operations.