Overview

Through this Masters degree you'll:

• understand how to transform employees into cyber security assets by understanding the central role of people in the cyber security landscape

• place yourself at the forefront of expertise when it comes to secure programming, networking and system design

• gain project-driven experience of tools and methods appropriate for understanding and addressing emerging cyber threats

Key Features

What's special about the Cyber Security program offered by University of Strathclyde is its depth of and breadth of coverage of the cyber security landscape.

Cyber security problems cannot be truly understood solely from a technical or sociological perspective. Cyber security experts should shift perspectives between attackers and defenders, identify human factors, economic motives, and operate within regulatory constraints.

Careers

It is well-known there is a shortage of skilled cyber security professionals, indeed most medium to large companies now have a dedicated cyber security team. Particularly in sectors such as finance and critical infrastructure the cyber security teams play a central role in the business model of the organisation. 

The university provides career advice through specialist industry-specific career sessions from award-winning Careers Service. There is also an IT careers fair.

In addition, there will be peer support via the parallel Graduate Apprenticeship (GA) in Cyber Security. Students taking the GA are employed in cyber security roles in a range of companies across Scotland. Information sharing will be facilitated between GA students and students taking the MSc in Cyber Security for additional first-hand experience of the market entry points.

The MSc also caters for students aiming to follow up their MSc with a PhD pursuing inspiring research in cyber security. During the Cyber Security MSc, students will be guided deep into the areas of expertise of lecturers, such that they may be guided towards an MSc dissertation disseminating meaningful and impactful results. 

Students discovering a passion for conducting and writing about research can expect to receive direct support and advice concerning how to go about pursuing a PhD in cyber security.