• Total units 48 Units
  • Areas of interest Computer Science, Information Technology, Security Studies, Software Development, Computer Systems
  • Major code CSEC-MAJ

The Cyber Security major provides principles, theories and practical skills required to analyse and manage current cybersecurity 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

  1. Understand the principles, practice and issues associated with the field of cyber security
  2. Apply a range of modelling, management, analytics and visualisation techniques to handle relevant defensive as well as offensive cyber security operations
  3. Reverse-engineer systems based on minimal outside information
  4. Communicate and present their knowledge of cyber security to diverse audiences
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Requirements

This major requires the completion of 48 units, including,


A minimum of 18 units from completion of 3000 or 4000 level courses.


36 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

COMP2120 Software Engineering

COMP2310 Systems Networks and Concurrency

COMP2700 Cyber Security Foundations

COMP3300 Operating Systems Implementation

COMP3310 Computer Networks

COMP3704 Network Security


A minimum of 6 units from completion of courses from the following list:

COMP4130 Managing Software Quality and Process

COMP4703 Reverse Engineering and Exploitation


A maximum of 6 units from completion of courses from the following list:

COMP4011 Advanced Topics in Formal Methods and Programming Languages

COMP4045 Advanced Topics in Computer Systems

COMP4712 Compiler Construction

CRIM2010 Cybercrime: An Introduction

MATH3301 Number Theory and Cryptography

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