Course details

This course prepares you for specialist cybersecurity roles with a global perspective. You’ll gain the practical skills and knowledge to lead creation, implementation and management of secure computer systems across a range of exciting career paths. You’ll be able to protect people and their data from cyberattacks as you draw on your studies across international relations, ethics and law.

About the course

Studying International Cybersecurity will prepare you for a range of specialist cybersecurity roles with a global perspective. From a system administrator or engineer designing, configuring, and maintaining a secure system; to a programmer or application developer building secure, fault-tolerant software systems; to a web specialist assessing risks and determining how best to reduce the potential impact of breached systems. From a user support technician assessing concerns surrounding desktop computing; to a project manager calculating the cost and benefit trade-offs in implementing secure systems. With industry integrated learning, you’ll gain the practical skills and knowledge to lead creation, implementation and management of secure computer systems across a range of exciting career paths, protecting people and their data from cyber-attacks as you draw on your studies across law, policy, ethics and risk management.

You'll learn to

• create, operate, analyse and test secure systems
• detect, analyse and confront cybersecurity challenges
• use mathematical, technical and business tools to secure information systems across a range of industries
• work effectively as a team member and as a team leader
• extend knowledge in cybersecurity through research, experimentation and analysis

Careers and further study

This course opens up a world of future study pathways and career options.

Career opportunities

Almost every Information and Communications Technology career path encompasses some aspect of security, including and beyond the job roles of cybersecurity specialist, information technology specialist, software engineer or information specialist.

Cybersecurity career opportunities continue to grow across all industries including energy and resources engineering, bioinformatics and biochemistry, computational physics and astronomy, transportation, health, finance, marketing, geophysics, geographic information systems and biomechanics.