Foundations of Cyber Security

Module overview

This module aims to give an overview of cyber security. The module will equip students with a clear view of the current cyber security landscape considering not only technical measures and defences, but also the other subject areas that apply, including legal, management, crime, risk, social and human factors. Lectures will be given by staff from the University's Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security with invited expert speakers from industry. Case studies are used to reinforce the concepts being introduced.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

Managing security incidents, including digital forensic principles
Issues surrounding privacy, anonymity and pervasive passive monitoring
Key factors in cyber security from different disciplinary views including computer science, management, law, criminology, and social sciences
The roles and influences of governments, commercial and other organisations, citizens and criminals in cyber security affairs
The importance of taking a multi-disciplinary approach to cyber security
General principles and strategies that can be applied to systems to make them more robust to attack
The cyber threat landscape, both in terms of recent emergent issues and those issues which recur over time

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Analyse case studies, to reinforce the different disciplinary perspectives of cyber security

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

Lecture - 36 hours per semester Seminar - 8 hours per semester

Study time
Type	Hours
Follow-up work	12
Completion of assessment task	60
Revision	10
Lecture	32
Tutorial	4
Preparation for scheduled sessions	12
Wider reading or practice	20
Total study time	150

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Andress, J., Cyber Warfare (2013). Techniques, Tactics and Tools for Security Practitioners. Syngress.

Stallings, W., Brown, L. (2018). Computer Security - Principles and Practice. Pearson Education Limited.

Clarke, R.A., Cyber War (2012). The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do about it,. ECCO Press.

Graham, J.. Howard, R., Olson, R. (2011). Cyber Security Essentials. CRC Press.

Assessment

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Coursework	25%
Examination	75%

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Examination	100%

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Examination	100%

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External