The main aim of the course is to provide graduates with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to be an ICT professional with particular skills in a chosen area. Graduates will be prepared for immediate professional employment, or further studies at honours or postgraduate level.

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

• Identify the need for cyber security and ICT solutions and elicit information from the relevant stakeholders about the requirements for the solution.
• Assess and analyse the appropriateness of methodologies and technologies for the design and implementation of cyber security and ICT solutions.
• Identify, investigate, and appraise cyber security situations by applying appropriate methodologies, practices, technologies, ethical and legal issues, utilising generic and specialised software tools used by cyber security professionals.
• Communicate effectively using written and oral communication skills in a professional context, adapt personal interaction style to a given audience, work efficiently in a team, guide and direct other team members.
• Plan and implement a cyber security strategy considering the requirements of the organisation and consult with stakeholders.
• Apply knowledge of the technologies that make up secure infrastructure to exploit and defend against idealised and real-life cyber security threats.