About the Courses
Course highlights
Master parallel disciplines in digital security and forensic investigation, and expand your career options in a connected world that needs cyber skills more than ever
Use our specialist facilities, including multi-platform network suites, pervasive computing lab for high performance computing, usability lab with eye-tracking equipment, forensics lab and crime scene simulations
Investigate real-life case studies, identify digital trails, compile evidence and engage with ethical hacking, using current forensic tools and systems such as AccessData, Cellebrite and Tryhackme
Explore contemporary cybersecurity issues: blockchain and cryptocurrency, money laundering, the Internet of Things, drones, and anti-forensic techniques
Design and deliver your own forensic IT engineering or study project, shaping this Master
Course highlights
Master parallel disciplines in digital security and forensic investigation, and expand your career options in a connected world that needs cyber skills more than ever
Use our specialist facilities, including multi-platform network suites, pervasive computing lab for high performance computing, usability lab with eye-tracking equipment, forensics lab and crime scene simulations
Investigate real-life case studies, identify digital trails, compile evidence and engage with ethical hacking, using current forensic tools and systems such as AccessData, Cellebrite and Tryhackme
Explore contemporary cybersecurity issues: blockchain and cryptocurrency, money laundering, the Internet of Things, drones, and anti-forensic techniques
Design and deliver your own forensic IT engineering or study project, shaping this Master's to your interests
Learn formal logic, Linux and symbolic notation used in digital forensics and cyber security
Modules
On this full-time MSc Cyber Security and Forensic Information Technology course, you'll study 4 core modules, and choose a further optional module.
Computer Forensic Investigation and Cryptography - 30 credits
Mobile Forensics Issues and Practice - 30 credits
Systems Security and Hacking - 30 credits
Masters Project computer science - 60 credits
On this full-time MSc Cyber Security and Forensic Information Technology course, you'll study 4 core modules, and choose a further optional module.
Big Data and Machine Learning Applications - 30 credits
Business Intelligence - 15 credits
Cloud Computing - 30 credits
Data Visualisation and Exploring Analytics - 15 credits
Network Services and Cyber Security - 30 credits
The Global Landscape of Cybersecurity - 30 credits