Cyber Security (Foundation)

University Academy 92 (UA92)

Delivered in our super-modern Digital Academy, this Cyber Security degree will teach you secure back-end and front-end development skills. Our industry specialists will train you up on languages like JavaScript, Python an SQL, to ensure your programming skills are on point.This course is fully hands-on, with access to the latest technology supporting you to create secure web-based applications and implement cyber security policies and solutions. You’ll get to grips with the world of cyber-crime and its impact, understand how to identify and mitigate risk, and become familiar with important ethical and legal issues.In your third year you’ll have the opportunity to use your skills and knowledge to come up with your own quality solution to a real-world computing security issue.This course will enable you to:Understand the nature of cyber-crime and the importance of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI).Learn about operating systems and their similarities and differences.Begin to formulate risk management and mitigation strategies using real-world scenarios.Find out how to write robust code and integrate systems securely.Get to grips with Network security.All UA92 degrees are awarded by Lancaster University.What’s next for a Cyber Security graduate?As the digital world expands, the threat of cyber-crime is growing fast, and becoming more serious. It has the potential to bring down systems that are critical to our way of life and our national security.This ever-increasing threat means we need more experts in cyber security to keep us and our data safe in a changing world. Cyber security professionals are in demand, and this demand is set to grow significantly as more systems digitise.You’ll have the tools to succeed in various roles, including network and security engineer, cyber security analyst, information security specialist or data privacy engineer.The focus on employability throughout this course will set you up for cyber security roles across a huge range of sectors including government, health, education, infrastructure and finance.