Handbook

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 cybercrime is estimated to surpass $1 trillion a year.  This major combines technical, security and criminology units to provide students with highly-relevant professional skills in security, intelligence, policy, governance, investigation and law enforcement.  Students gain understandings of the architecture, operation and protection of IT systems, consider critical issues in the governance and implementation of cyber security, explore the roles of government and industry in ensuring cybersecurity, and identify the processes by which cybercrime is investigated and prosecuted.