Graduate Diploma in Cyber Security

This course can help you fast-track your career in cyber security. It is designed for computer professionals who have an interest in finding and fixing vulnerabilities, encryption, intrusion detection and managing cyber risks and network security.

Depending on your choice of units, you may study evidence collection, counter-intelligence, internet crime, business continuity, network security policies, network firewalls, authentication and web server security.

This course is for graduates with a computing background. It provides a detailed coverage of the key concepts and challenges in data and resource protection and computer software security, with a focus on both high-level concepts and low-level practical aspects of information security.

Graduates may find employment as computer security experts in many different organisations due to the pervasive nature of modern computing, but particular demand will come from the areas of web-based services, banking, information retrieval and national security.

Please refer to the handbook for additional course overview information. 

What you'll learn

• assess the theoretical concepts involved in data encryption and intrusion detection and deploy them in a modern day Information Technology system
• evaluate the various approaches to encryption and security detection and develop a strategy for adapting them to a specific situation
• evaluate and synthesise information from a variety of sources and develop a plan to optimize computer security, data encryption and intrusion management
• assess computer security management processes and explain them in written and oral form to both technical and non-technical audiences
• evaluate and select appropriately from existing and emerging encryption, computer security prevention and intrusion technologies
• engage in continual updating of knowledge with regard to new and emerging computer security concepts, issues and management strategies
• evaluate and interpret The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, The Association for Computing Machinery and the Australian Computer Society standards related to data encryption, computer security protection and management
• understand the ethical issues related to protecting the rights of individuals from diverse cultures and how that maps to ensuring the security and integrity of data in an Information Technology system
• develop policies and practical procedures to improve the security setup of an Information Technology organization