Overview

This programme is designed to provide you with the skills and knowledge to become a professional computing practitioner, specialising Cyber Security.

You will study Ethical Hacking, The Cyber Security Landscape, Principles of Computer Forensics, and will complete a range of projects.

Aims

This programme is designed to provide you with the skills and knowledge to become a professional computing practitioner, specialising Cyber Security. The programme has been developed in response to research and identifies the skills and knowledge essential for working in the computing industry.

Our fantastic computing team manage a LinkedIn group with over 1450 members; more than 1000 of these are employers from the Computing and IT sector who are available to directly communicate with you when you join the programme. You will be encouraged to communicate directly with these employers to gain work experience and or arrange trips/visits to employer premises to see networks and network engineering in practice. Additionally, each module aims to bring a subject specialist guest speaker to inform the curriculum. Employers are asked to review assignment briefs and where appropriate act as a Live Client or approve a simulated scenario which reflects realistic practice. Where employers act as a ‘live client’, they are invited to observe assessment and provide feedback however they do not influence the marks awarded for academic work. An example of this is where an Agile specialist from Sage Newcastle will deliver a talk in Project Management.

Through a range of teaching and learning activities, this programme seeks to engage your academic curiosity, stimulate your intellectual capacities, and promote methodical, systematic and logical thinking within the digital industries, supporting the enhancement of employability/self-employment skills. The curriculum reflects contemporary issues supporting personal and professional development.

You can progress to work in a relevant job role within the computing industry.