Overview

Cybersecurity is the practice of deploying people, policies, processes and technologies to protect systems and information.  In Australia, cybersecurity is recognised as one of the state’s principal security risks, a concern that has escalated during the Covid pandemic due to our increased dependence on the internet.   Globally, the cost of … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Academic Chair

Structure
24 credit points

Major24 credit points

Admission requirements

English language requirements

Learning outcomes

1.

Demonstrate detailed knowledge of cyber security and its challenges in policy, governance, technical, and enforcement contexts.

2.

Critically evaluate competing strategies, theoretical understandings, and sources of knowledge that inform approaches to cyber security.

3.

Apply technical skills, investigative strategies and theoretical approaches in order to solve real-world problems and design cyber security solutions.

4.

Effectively communicate ideas, synthesise complex information, and make evidence-based arguments in relation to cyber security.

5.

Design and manage projects of increasing sophistication, involving ethical inquiry, and working independently and with others

6.

Demonstrate the capacity to think across cultures and diverse contexts when addressing complex cyber security challenges.

7.

Develop interpersonal, ethical, research, analytical, problem-solving and other skills that that are valued in government, military, security, trade, education, law, technology, industry, media, marketing and other professional contexts.

Research areas

Studies in Human Society
Law and Legal Studies
Information and Computing Sciences