MSc Cyber Security

The programme aims to provide you with advanced and specialist knowledge and skills in the field of cyber security. Your MSc Cyber Security will cover topics such as

• Information Governance and Security
• Information Assurance and Risk Management
• Wireless Networks and Security
• Network Security
• Ethical Hacking for Cyber Security.

You will also develop your research and project management skills, in particular, to support your preparation for your MSc project. In your final semester, you will complete a major individual project, where you will receive one-to-one tuition and supervision from a relevant academic supervisor.

This project will provide you with a platform to undertake a substantial piece of individual research. To do this you will utilise appropriate advanced research, critical evaluation and synthesis techniques.

Our MSc Cyber Security has been awarded provisional certification in Cyber Security from the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre). This places us in an elite group of postgraduate providers which have achieved this standard.

This programme is also available part-time or as MSc Cyber Security with Advanced Practice which includes either an internship, consultancy project or research project.

Ultimately, as a graduate of MSc Cyber Security you will be able to:

• Demonstrate complex, specialised knowledge and skills and appreciate innovations, advances and major issues in the field of cyber security
• Deal with complex issues both creatively and systematically, and show originality in tackling and solving problems
• Work both individually and as a member of a team, recognising different team roles and multi-cultural environmental issues
• Communicate balanced judgements effectively (in writing and verbally) at the appropriate business and technical level with users, management, customers and technical specialists, justifying work in the context of wider theories and practice, including when considering incomplete or ambiguous data
• Critically understand computing systems in relation to cyber security issues
• Act in a professional and ethical manner in the development and use of computing systems
• Satisfy the educational requirements of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT for professional membership

Northumbria University’s Cyber Security Master’s degrees have been recognised as among the best in the country after receiving full certification from the UK Government’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ.