我们的社会非常依赖于计算机软件。电子系统无处不在，政府，金融和运输组织或电信公司都拥有和管理与我们的日常活动有关的大量敏感信息。随着新系统和服务的出现，例如电子ID和护照，电子支付系统，会员计划，电子机票和电信系统，我们生活的方方面面都依赖某些计算​​机化系统/由其记录下来。因此，我们已经目睹了针对计算基础架构的攻击的显着增加。GCHQ将网络安全威胁定性为恐怖主义，因此对这一领域的专业培训的毕业生的需求与日俱增。网络安全和隐私是对安全性的计算原理，方法和机制的研究。保护这些敏感的应用程序。该课程的毕业生将
Our societies are critically dependent on computer software. Electronic systems are everywhere, and governments, financial and transport organisations, or telecommunication companies all possess and manage huge amounts of sensitive information concerning all of our everyday activities.<br><br>With the emergence of new systems and services, every aspect of our life is relying on / is recorded by some computerised system, such as:<br><br>electronic IDs and passports<br>electronic payment systems and loyalty schemes<br>electronic tickets<br>telecommunication systems<br>As such, we have been witnessing a significant increase in attacks targeting computing infrastructure. The cyber security threat has been characterised as serious as terrorism by the GCHQ, therefore the need for graduates with highly specialised training in this area is ever-growing.<br><br>Cyber security and privacy is the study of the computational principles, methods and mechanisms for safe-guarding these sensitive applications. Graduates of the programme will learn how to evaluate, design, and implement secure and trustworthy systems in complex distributed systems.