The cyber security major provides principles, theories and practical skills required to analyse and manage current cyber security situations. Students will learn how to reverse-engineer a given system and to identify and test vulnerabilities. The addressed systems cover the complete range of architectures from individual controllers to the internet.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the principles, practice and issues associated with the field of cyber security
- Apply a range of modelling, management, analytics and visualisation techniques to handle relevant defensive as well as offensive cyber security operations
- Reverse-engineer systems based on minimal outside information
- Communicate and present their knowledge of cyber security to diverse audiences
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must consist of:
42 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:
COMP2310 Systems Networks and Concurrency
COMP2700 Cyber Security Foundations
COMP3300 Operating Systems Implementation
COMP3310 Computer Networks
COMP3701 Defensive Cyber Security Operations
COMP3702 Offensive Cyber Security Operations
CRIM2010 Cybercrime: an introduction
6 units from completion of courses from the following:
COMP2610 Information Theory
COMP4330 Real-Time & Embedded Systems
ENGN3213 Digital Systems and Microprocessors
MATH3301 Number Theory and Cryptography
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