Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security

There is a significant shortage of cyber security skills and expertise throughout the world. This program is designed to provide knowledge in cyber security to computing and IT graduates and professionals positioning them as cyber security experts.

This program involves the study of cyber security threats and attacks and provides students with a working knowledge of important security standards, techniques to exploit the current systems and networks, and technical depth in terms of expertise in the design of secure systems and their application to real-world problems in different industry sectors.

The University of Newcastle offers an advanced Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security which is a professional qualification for those who wish to specialise in safeguarding cyber security across a variety of industry sectors.

You will gain a thorough understanding of cyber security threats and attacks to enable you to identify, analyse and apply security techniques and mechanisms to develop secure protocols. You will also learn privacy concepts and techniques for privacy enhanced technologies, and be equipped to implement best practices for cyber security.