The aims of the module are to:

• Introduce core cyber resilience concepts that may be developed further by subsequent modules.
• Inspire students to develop independent postgraduate study skills.
• Encourage students to develop a responsible attitude towards collaborative learning and authentic assessment.
• Introduce the cyber resilience teaching and learning environment.

The aims of the module are to:

• introduce industry standard approaches to cyber risk management
• sensitise students to ambiguous interpretation of words and numbers concerning cyber risk

The aims of the module are to:

• Introduce the relationships between: abstract mathematics; abstract cryptographic algorithms, schemes and protocols; concrete realisation of cryptographic algorithms, schemes and protocols; day to day cryptographic usage.
• Establish the significance of cryptographic hashes, symmetric encryption, public key encryption and hybrid schemes.
• Develop the concepts of 'difficulty' and 'cryptographic strength' and their resilience to the passage of time.
• Identify good patterns, and bad anti-patterns of cryptography and their consequences for current standards, implementations and patterns of use.
• Emphasise the significance of the cryptographic key lifecycle.
• Provide opportunities to experiment with cryptographic implementations.

The aims of the module are to:

• Introduce the strengths and limitations of a range of AI approaches.
• Identify how AI solutions might be degraded by purposeful attack.
• Provide opportunities to experiment with AI tools and techniques.

The aims of the module are to:

• Establish the relationship between abstract layered protocols and the dominant Ethernet plus Internet Protocol network stacks.
• Develop skill in the capture and analysis of network traffic.
• Provide opportunities to configure network components and endpoints.
• Acknowledge that although cryptography is an important aspect of network security, network cryptography is covered in a separate module.

The aims of the module are to:

• Define the important properties, characteristics and metrics concerning cyber resilience in the face of cyber incidents.
• Introduce standard approaches to cyber security incident response.
• Introduce digital forensic process.
• Provide opportunities to apply digital forensic processes in the attribution of responsibility for an incident.

The aims of the module are to:

• Highlight the enormous extent of the evolving attack and defence landscape.
• Establish the high-level goals of the various classifications of threat actors.
• Introduce frameworks used to classify vulnerabilities, exploits, attack patterns, defence patterns and malware samples.
• Introduce tools and and techniques for the safe analysis of potential malware.
• Provide opportunities to engage in malware analysis.

The aims of this module are to:

• Introduce the facets of research from broad research philosophy to detailed data collection.
• Develop critical analysis skills across a range of different sources.
• Introduce ethical thinking into the development of an appropriate research methodology.

The aims of the module are to give each student the chance to plan, conduct and report an investigation related to cyber resilience.