Handbook

Cyber security constitutes a strategic objective worldwide, with the main aim of securing information and communication assets. Organizations across all industries are faced with unmanageable levels of cyber threats brought on by a changing threat landscape. The optimum strategy to respond to these threats is to make security an integral part of culture and overall structure—to help organizations better prepare for digital transformation in the age of the fourth industrial revolution. This subject aims at equipping the students with the skills needed to increase enterprise cyber resilience and set the foundation for implementing an incident response team and a security operations Center. Focusing on the Cyber security practice, the subject topics include: cyber resilience, threat intelligence, network security, mobile and IoT security, application and data security, cloud security, incident management and disaster recovery, and security operations centres. This subject prepares the students for industry certifications such as the IBM cyber security practitioner and the CSX-P certifications