Principles of Cyber Security

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• critically analyse a cyber attack and identify effective countermeasures

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The roles ad influences of governments, commercial and other organisations, citizens and criminals in cyber security affairs
• Issues surrounding privacy and anonymity
• General principles and strategies that can be applied to systems to make them more robust to attack
• The potentialities and challenges of emerging blockchain technology to enhance inter-organisation trust and data/processing integrity
• The cyber threat landscape, both in terms of recent emergent issues and those issues which recur over time
• The importance of taking a multi-disciplinary approach to cyber security

The syllabus includes the following topics:

oFundamental Security Concepts

oCyber Actors

oKill-Chain Cyber Attack Life Cycle

oCyber Attacks

oCyber Threat Landscape

oCorporate security

oAdvanced Persistent Threats

oSocial Engineering

oCyberwarfare

oHacktivism

oSecurity of Critical infrastructures

oPrinciples of Cryptography

oPublic Key Infrastructure

oSecure Communication

oUser Authentication

oPrivacy and Data Anonymisation

oAccess Control Models

oBlockchain

Lectures will be given by subject matter experts from the disciplines involved. Staff and resources from the University's Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research will contribute to the module.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.