Course summary

Passionate about protecting against cyber-attacks and recovering and investigating artefacts on digital devices? Aimed at people who aren’t local to our campus or who are in employment, the Cyber Security and Digital Forensics MSc at The University of Huddersfield can help you take the next step in your career. This practical distance learning course meets the demand for experts with a wide range of security, investigative and general computing skills, including cyber security, computer security and digital forensics skills. Our Cyber Security and Digital Forensics course aims to equip you with the ability and knowledge to evaluate existing and emerging cyber forensics technologies, implement cyber security solutions and acquire, preserve and analyse digital evidence. Develop the competencies necessary for such high demand roles as computer forensics investigator and information security analyst. Why study Cyber Security and Digital Forensics MSc at Huddersfield? You will develop your knowledge base and skillset to thrive as a cyber security and digital forensics professional after graduation. At the end of the course, you’ll put your newfound experience and skills to the test in a hands-on final Individual Project module. Your tutors will encourage you to tackle challenging problems, ensuring you are in the best position to make a real difference in the computing sector. Research plays an important role in informing all our teaching and learning activities, and you'll find many of our academics are at the forefront of impactful research. The University's Centre for Cyber Security (https://research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/ccs), for example, aims to develop and demonstrate advanced knowledge beneficial to understanding and mitigating cyber threats. Our course is provisionally certified by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) with full certification expected by the end of 2024. The NCSC is the UK's National technical authority for cyber security. Certification independently confirms that our course includes well-defined and relevant content and is delivered to an appropriate standard. Discover more about Distance Learning at Huddersfield (https://hud.ac.uk/study/distance-learning/). Professional links and accreditations: This course is provisionally certified by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).