You explore concepts in the use of internet technologies to access and interact with objects in the physical world.

You develop the capability to understand potential security risks and produce security architecture of IoT systems, including topics of architecture, operating systems and platforms, low power communications, data analysis, security and identity recognition.

You gain practical skills required for the programming of IoT devices.

Looking at the security issues that surround networked mobile devices, you critically evaluate the various strategies which may be engaged to protect the data held on them.

You develop your ability to research and appraise the strategies that can be used to maximise bandwidth efficiency when mobile devices communicate with the world.

You develop a strong range of transferable skills, including:

• the ability to communicate complex issues to a non-specialist audience
• how to create and maintain and audit trail of vulnerability analysis activities
• a critical understanding of cyber security risk management and governance
• evaluation of cyber vulnerability and threats to an organisation using digital tools
• the ability to evaluate a broad range of techniques used to identify cyber security vulnerabilities
• how to identify the professional, ethical and legal issues associated with risk and vulnerability analysis.

You develop an understanding how some basic human behaviours play out in cyberspace and investigate the impact these behaviours can have on organisations, using real-world case-studies and news stories.

You consider the issue of social engineering and discuss ways to protect against this threat both personally and in the workplace.

You learn about the types of cybersecurity threats and what steps individuals and organisations can take to mitigate against them.

You develop the skills to produce, evaluate and defend statements in the legal aspect of computing and IT.

You explore important ethical questions relating to the IT industry and develop your research, investigation and communication skills.

The course equips you an appreciation of the issues and processes of incident and investigation in computing environments.

You cover topics in access control, symmetric and public key cryptography protocols, digital signatures, authentication protocols, wireless network and security, network forensics, network security attacks, penetration testing, intrusion detection, access control list and firewalls.

You explore the underlying theoretical concepts such as cryptography and cyber security models as well as practical issues of cyber security attacks and countermeasures in system administration.