Principles of Cyber Security

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Issues surrounding privacy and anonymity
• The potentialities and challenges of emerging blockchain technology to enhance inter-organisation trust and data/processing integrity
• General principles and strategies that can be applied to systems to make them more robust to attack
• The roles ad influences of governments, commercial and other organisations, citizens and criminals in cyber security affairs
• The importance of taking a multi-disciplinary approach to cyber security
• The cyber threat landscape, both in terms of recent emergent issues and those issues which recur over time

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• critically analyse a cyber attack and identify effective countermeasures

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.