Master of Cybersecurity (Advanced)

Cybersecurity and Sustainable Enterprises enables students to develop their knowledge and understanding of enterprise governance standards and strategies with a focus on cybersecurity law and regulations. Digital transformation and its impact on business enterprises will be explored to ensure secure and efficient operational sustainability. Students will plan, develop and communicate sustainable cybersecurity solutions that are dependable and trustworthy, and encompass enterprise culture and viability.

Pre-requisite: ICD542 IoT, Cloud and Digital Infrastructure Protection

Assessment Tasks: Report, Presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Human-Centric Cybersecurity in a Smart Society develops students' knowledge and understanding of advancements in digital technology with consideration of human factors and a smart digital society. Digital disruption, contemporary cybersecurity solutions, and security breaches will be explored to design a sustainable and secure digital world including social media and virtual spaces, and ensure compliance with standard security frameworks. Students will design, deploy and communicate smart effective software solutions for both business and entertainment applications, that are based on the smart trust scheme needed for a digital society.

Pre-requisite: SFW541 Software Fortress and Web Protection

Assessment Tasks: Report, presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This work-integrated learning (WIL) subject is designed to provide students with an opportunity to undertake a significant ICT project in a professional environment. This experience will enable students to develop skills that enhance their prospects of gaining meaningful employment and build their future career. WIL expands upon the students’ learning environment while they are studying, allowing them to see first-hand how their learnings translate into ‘real-world’ practice. 

There are two WIL options available to students: 

Students are offered the opportunity to undertake an industry placement at an organisation in a suitable ICT position. This encourages them to build long-term relationships with the tech industry and provides an opportunity for them to work with and learn from people who may end up becoming colleagues, managers or mentors. It also provides a context in which to enhance their communication skills and work collaboratively in a professional context. Students will undertake a series of industry-led tasks that are relevant to their field of study in order to understand the key concepts of working in and managing a professional technology team with emphasis placed on the operation of the environment.

Students respond to criteria set within the context of an industry project. An understanding of research methodologies appropriate to professional practice and the documentation of personal creative investigation will be explored. Students will also further investigate and examine entrepreneurial and commercial opportunities through collaborative work practice. Students draw upon the philosophical, practical, methodological, theoretical and technical tools they have utilised over the duration of their degree to successfully complete an industry project. Students are mentored through this project with complementary practice-based expertise. Projects must pertain to the field of ICT. The subject is delivered from a cross discipline perspective and draws on both specialised and common industry practices. All projects must include evidence of critical analysis, reflexive and reflective practice and social engagement, in addition to the use of contemporary industry standard tools and techniques.

Students are required to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team in order to conduct research, analyse and define project parameters and deliver innovative solutions.

Pre-requisite: REM502 Research Methodologies and a completion of at least 70 credit points

Assessment Tasks: Industry placement, Journal, Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Credit: This is a 20-credit point subject

This industry capstone subject provides students with an opportunity to undertake a significant ICT project in a professional context. This experience will enable students to develop skills that enhance prospects for building their future career.

After the completion of ITW601 or equivalent, this advanced Work Integrated Learning (WIL) subject further expands upon the students’ learning, allowing them to see first-hand how these learnings translate into real-world practice.

Students draw upon the ethical, practical, and theoretical knowledge and skills they have gathered over the duration of their study to successfully complete their industry placement and projects. They will be mentored through the projects with complementary practice-based expertise and will be required to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team.

It is recommended students continue with the same option as chosen in the pre-requisite subject ITW 601:

Students are offered the opportunity to undertake an industry placement at an organisation in a suitable ICT position. This encourages them to build long-term relationships with the tech industry and provides an opportunity for them to work with and learn from people who may end up becoming colleagues, managers or mentors. It also provides a context in which to enhance their communication skills and work collaboratively in a professional context. Students will undertake a series of industry-led tasks that are relevant to their field of study in order to understand the key concepts of working in and managing a professional technology team with emphasis placed on the operation of the environment.

Students respond to criteria set within the context of an industry project. An understanding of research methodologies appropriate to professional practice and the documentation of personal creative investigation will be explored. Students will also further investigate and examine entrepreneurial and commercial opportunities through collaborative work practice. Students draw upon the philosophical, practical, methodological, theoretical and technical tools they have utilised over the duration of their degree to successfully complete an industry project. Students are mentored through this project with complementary practice-based expertise. Projects must pertain to the field of ICT. The subject is delivered from a cross discipline perspective and draws on both specialised and common industry practices. All projects must include evidence of critical analysis, reflexive and reflective practice and social engagement, in addition to the use of contemporary industry standard tools and techniques.

Pre-requisite: ITW601 Information Technology – Work Integrated Learning

Assessment Tasks: Presentation, report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Credit: This is a 30-credit point subject

In this subject students learn techniques and best practices in collecting, storing, cleaning, manipulating, analysing, extracting, and visualising useful information from large, structured, semi-structured, or unstructured data sets, which are useful for crucial organisation decisions. Students will also learn applications of big data analytics across industry sectors such as segmentation and prediction, churn prediction, recommender systems and targeted marketing, sentiment analysis, operational analytics, and Big Data for social good.

Pre-requisite: CCF501 Cloud Computing Fundamental

Assessment Tasks: Report, Presentation, Source Code

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Progressing from traditional project management frameworks, this subject focuses on Agile project management, agile project management methodology, the principles of agile, and agile techniques. This subject will be based on a foundation of the four core values and 12 guiding principles of agile as laid out by the agile manifesto. Students will develop an understanding of agile concepts, tools and techniques: Scrum and Kanban, Roadmap planning, Program increments, Sprints and daily scrums and the agile roles within teams. Some of the leading agile frameworks will be discussed so that students will gain an understanding of some of the different schools of thought, which support the agile continuous delivery pipeline. Points of origin in Lean practice and the relationship between agile and DevOps will also be covered to help students orient themselves in the broader emerging landscape of projects and software development landscape.

Pre-requisite: PROJ6000 Principles of Project Management

Assessment Tasks: Report, Presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject develops conceptual and practical knowledge and skills in experience design for digital products and services. Students will use common experience design methods and tools to analyse user needs. Students will work through the design process to improve and refine the user experience in relation to the requirements of a specific client brief. Throughout this subject students will develop their knowledge and skillset to design usable and user-centred experiences.

Assessment Tasks: Report, Design Prototype, Journal

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject introduces you to how organisational behaviour, politics, dynamics and environments impact on the role and legitimacy of management. Constraints that managers and emerging leaders face in developing strategies to leverage advantages and overcome barriers in organisations and projects will be explored. You will identify, analyse and make effective decisions to resolve people-related issues, lead and manage change, facilitate employee development, performance and sustain effective teams in complex and diverse global operating environments

Assessment Tasks: Critical Discussion, Presentation, Report, Team Performance Evaluation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject provides an in-depth understanding of distributed application and systems development by training learners to aggregate resources of networked computers to construct highly versatile and scalable services. The topics cover how to implement thread pools that leverage lightweight concurrency primitives, harness concepts of distributed algorithms and discuss the role of overlays in content dissemination. Case studies of distributed systems are also covered in detail. Finally, learners design efficient data representation formats for communication between distributed components.

Pre-requisite: CCF501 Cloud Computing Fundamental

Assessment Tasks: Online Test, Report, Source Code

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject introduces the basics of deep learning and how to build neural networks. Students are presented with different methods and applications to different AI sub-areas such as natural language processing, speech recognition, and computer vision. The subject begins with the introduction of simple neural networks such as multi-layer perceptron, and to more complicated concepts such as recurrent neural networks, convolutional networks, and long short-term networks.

Pre-requisite: MFA501 Mathematical Foundations

Assessment Tasks: Report, Presentation, Source Code

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online