Program Overview

MJ-CYPS - Cyberspace, Policy and Security

Overview

Cybersecurity is the practice of deploying people, policies, processes and technologies to protect systems and information. In Australia, cybersecurity is recognised as one of the state's principal security risks, a concern that has escalated during the Covid pandemic due to our increased dependence on the internet. Globally, the cost of cybercrime is estimated to surpass $1 trillion a year. This major combines technical, security and criminology units to provide students with highly-relevant professional skills in security, intelligence, policy, governance, investigation and law enforcement. Students gain understandings of the architecture, operation and protection of IT systems, consider critical issues in the governance and implementation of cyber security, explore the roles of government and industry in ensuring cybersecurity, and identify the processes by which cybercrime is investigated and prosecuted.

Structure

The major requires 24 credit points, consisting of:

• Required Units (15 credit points)
  • POL108: Politics, Society and Technology (3 cp)
  • POL208: Security and Technology (3 cp)
  • ICT169: Foundations of Data Communications (3 cp)
  • ICT171: Introduction to Server Environments and Architectures (3 cp)
  • CRM100: Introduction to Criminology (3 cp)
• Specified Elective Units (9 credit points)
  • CRM207: Investigation and Evidence (3 cp)
  • CRM230: White Collar Crime (3 cp)
  • CRM303: Technology, Crime and Justice (3 cp)
  • ICT279: Security Architectures and Controls (3 cp)
  • ICT280: Information Security Policy and Governance (3 cp)
  • POL202: Policing and the Politics of Counterterrorism (3 cp)
  • POL234: Violent Extremism and Radicalisation in a Globalised World (3 cp)
  • POL304: Security Challenges in Policy and Practice (3 cp)
  • POL306: The Politics of Human Rights (3 cp)

Admission Requirements

• English language requirements: Equivalent of an Academic IELTS overall score of 6.0 with no band less than 6.0.

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of cyber security and its challenges in policy, governance, technical, and enforcement contexts.
2. Critically evaluate competing strategies, theoretical understandings, and sources of knowledge that inform approaches to cyber security.
3. Apply technical skills, investigative strategies and theoretical approaches in order to solve real-world problems and design cyber security solutions.
4. Effectively communicate ideas, synthesise complex information, and make evidence-based arguments in relation to cyber security.
5. Design and manage projects of increasing sophistication, involving ethical inquiry, and working independently and with others.
6. Demonstrate the capacity to think across cultures and diverse contexts when addressing complex cyber security challenges.
7. Develop interpersonal, ethical, research, analytical, problem-solving and other skills that are valued in government, military, security, trade, education, law, technology, industry, media, marketing and other professional contexts.

Research Areas

• Studies in Human Society
• Law and Legal Studies
• Information and Computing Sciences

Program Details

• Version: 10
• Version start date: 01/01/2025
• End date: 31/12/2024
• Owning college: College of Law, Arts and Social Sciences
• Owning school: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
• Enrolment pattern(s): Part Time, Full Time
• Credit points: 24