Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Cyber Security (Sandwich Year)

Protecting organisations from cyber-attacks is a valuable skill and graduates are highly sought after and it’s one Nottingham Trent University prepares students for.

Students will explore how to detect and identify security risks before building on this with developing their own preventative measures – all with plenty of opportunities to test their solutions in Nottingham Trent University's industry-standard facilities.

Building on a solid foundation covering network and system technologies, this course covers the core knowledge and skills needed to protect businesses against security threats. Students will develop a detailed understanding of computer security issues, the detection of computer-based crime and the preservation and interpretation of digital evidence of crime.

This course aims to enable students to identify security risks and preventative measures in technological solutions. Students will learn the basic principles and practice of collecting computer data as evidence of computer crime and how systems operate in terms of their software and hardware infrastructure. Based on this, students will learn how to manage such systems as a system administrator specialising in ensuring security. Their knowledge will be further developed to give students a good appreciation of security issues and the steps organisations need to take to protect themselves from security breaches and crime.

This course is accredited by the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT to Chartered IT Professional (CITP) status.

Please be advised that this course has a sandwich year.