Cyber Security and Forensics

The Cyber Security and Forensics program offered at the University of Westminster focusses on two key aspects of Cyber Security: analysing and assessing risk to minimise them and Digital Forensics, which involves investigating and extracting digital information from various devices for legal evidential purposes.

You’ll gain insights into security threats facing computer systems, the nature of stored information on digital devices, and the extraction processes.

The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.

Key facts

• All students will take the core modules which are designed to give a comprehensive introduction to this specialist field of Cyber Security and Forensics.

• The course structure allows you to choose optional modules from either the Cyber Security or Digital Forensics themes, providing a comprehensive and flexible learning experience.

• In addition, you’ll undertake and complete a Cyber Security and Forensics Major Project Module.

Careers

• This course is designed with a high degree of relevance to the industry’s needs. It will equip you with all the necessary skills needed for jobs in the field of cyber security and digital forensics.

• With computers being central to all aspects of our daily lives, as industries ranging from communications to banking have come to rely on them, the need for improved computer security has never been greater.

• This means that there’s a growing demand for specialists in cyber security and digital forensics.

Job roles

This course will prepare you for roles such as:

• Anti-piracy/content protection analyst

• Computer forensics analyst

• Computer security incident responder

• Cyber security manager

• Information security analyst

• Information security assurance officer

• Information security assurance analyst

• Information security consultant

• Information security risk officer

This course has been accredited by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT for the purposes of partially meeting the further learning academic requirement for registration as a Chartered IT Professional.

Courses include:

• Cyber Security and Forensics Project

• Network Security Management

• Information Security Governance and Compliance

• Digital Forensics and Incident Response

• Digital Forensics Applications