MSc - Cyber Security with Placement Year

University of Hertfordshire

About the course One of a range of degrees from the taught master's programme at the Department of Computer Science. This course considers current research and practice in cyber security. You will build the fundamental and advanced aspects of cyber security in terms of theory, practice, policy and security standard to enable critical cyber security decision marking, the extant threats to current and emerging systems and networks and the effective countermeasures to such threats in compliance with information security management standards, and the social, legal and ethical issues relating to cyber security in the context of digital forensics, information security management, penetrating testing and cyber operations. The programme offers three award routes that you can choose to study: MSc Cyber Security MSc Cyber Security with Placement Year MSc Cyber Security with Advanced Research