Handbook

This course will not be offered from Hexamester 3, 2024.

Cybersecurity is headline news and a rapidly growing challenge worldwide. Digital technology now pervades nearly every aspect of our citizens' personal and professional lives. This technology brings enormous benefits to humanity, but at the same time, it also brings serious problems. The many forms of cyber-threats – including disruption, data theft, surveillance, and system compromise – have become tools of activism, organised crime, corporate and state espionage, warfare, terrorism, Orwellian surveillance, suppression of liberty, and privacy compromise.

Cybersecurity is one of the global challenges for humanity to tackle, along with climate change, poverty, and human health. Left unchecked, a lack of cybersecurity poses an existential threat to enlightenment values and modern civilisation as we know it – so you've selected something important and worthwhile to master.

This foundational course is designed to equip students with a broad understanding of current and emerging cybersecurity concepts, issues, practices, and trends, as well as help them start to develop a security engineering mindset, that is, how cybersecurity professionals approach problems and view situations.