Diploma in Cybersecurity (Level 6)

Programme Description

The programme runs overs 40 weeks in 2 semesters excluding 6 weeks breaks. Graduates are awarded 120 credits for a successful completion of all 8 modules.

Graduate Outcome

Graduates of this programme will be able to:

• Analyse organisational security context using information management principles, data analysis, organisational strategy, systems, stakeholder roles and responsibilities.
• Analyse IT technology stack and identify issues and their impacts on organisational performance and business risks. [15]
• Apply knowledge of risk management frameworks to perform cybersecurity risk assessments and communicate results to support organisational risk management process.
• Assess, select, plan, implement and validate cybersecurity approaches and controls to support organisational objectives and operations.
• Analyse cybersecurity events, perform security incident classification, and apply security incident handling techniques and participate in an incident handling process.
• Analyse legal, privacy and ethical impacts of regulatory environment and organisational decisions, advise on cybersecurity implications and organisational obligations applicable to particular situation.
• Behave professionally and apply professional and ethical practices.
• Apply communication, information design, teamwork, personal, and interpersonal skills.
• Apply project management tools and techniques using knowledge of project planning, management and control to analyse and solve problems

Structure

The programme runs overs 40 weeks in 2 semesters of 20 weeks each. You must successfully complete all 8 modules to graduate. Refer Module Descriptions for details.

Module Descriptions