So, in this module we shall:

• Look into the professional roles, skillset, ethical responsibilities of Cyber Security professionals.

• Explore the relevant computing architectures, practices, applications and standards.

• Develop an understanding of the core concepts in Cyber Security such as cryptography, penetration testing and ethical hacking.

• Engage with programming concepts necessary for facilitating security-based decisions.

• Develop the ability to implement a secure information system using the principles and concepts of object-oriented approaches to solve a given problem, such as information system design and web development.

• Discuss the ethos of professional development highlighting major ethical-social-corporate responsibilities underpinning the concepts of threats, securities and global impacts prevailing the recent technological innovations and future applications.

On completion of this module you will be able to:

• Identify and explain the architecture, structure and functionality of basic components of a computer system, considering Cyber Security issues

• Evaluate critically implications of the key vulnerabilities and threats of software and network security and approaches to mitigate these issues

• Appraise critically and apply the concepts and principles of secure object-oriented design to facilitate business security-based decisions

• Evaluate critically the solutions developed to solve/mitigate these security issues.