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Study Details: 1 year full-time, 2- 3 years part-time
Join the fight against malicious programs and cybercrime on our Computer Science (Cyber Security) MSc. We will give you the skills you need to become a cyber security and digital forensics professional – intercepting, collecting, analysing and reporting the events in cyberspace and digital media.
Put yourself on the cyber security front line with Staffordshire University. We have specialised computer laboratories, isolated from university networks, to give you vital experience in the most current security threats - and more importantly, how to protect against and neutralise them.
With us, you will gain advanced knowledge and skills in the theories, principles, practices and technologies of cyber security and digital forensics. Our research-driven and industry-connected academic staff also aim to enrich you in the different ethical and lawful issues, to make you readily employable after graduation.
An undergraduate honours degree (grade 2.2 or above in a related computing discipline from a UK University or the international equivalent).
If you do not meet the above but have significant appropriate experience, your application will be considered, provided that you satisfy the University that you are capable of responding to the challenge of postgraduate work.
After completing the Computer Science (Cyber Security) MSc, you’ll be equipped to work in the following roles:
⦁ Security engineer
⦁ Security analyst
⦁ Security administrator
⦁ Digital Forensic Investigator
⦁ Security specialist
⦁ Security consultant
Eager for more knowledge? Upon completion, you’ll be ideally placed for further academic study at PhD level.
Year 1 compulsory modules
⦁ Digital Forensics
⦁ Dissertation
⦁ Machine Learning In Cyber
⦁ Operating Systems And Network Security
⦁ Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking
⦁ Quantum Computing And Cryptography
⦁ Research Methods And Dissertation Proposal
Your place of possibility.At University of Staffordshire, our postgraduate community is built around ambition, personalised learning and career transf...
