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La Trobe’s Bachelor of Cybersecurity offers you the opportunity to step into the rapidly evolving digital world of cybersecurity.You’ll build a highly specialised technical skillset as you learn about the history of hacking, build your coding expertise, and access industry-based projects and mentoring opportunities with major corporations.You’ll also have the opportunity to complement your industry-focused learning with a choice of elective subjects, which are available to you.You&#39;ll learn:<ul><li>Cybersecurity fundamentals<ul><li>Learn the basic principles and best practices of cybersecurity. Understand how it mitigates cyber vulnerabilities and protects confidential information.</li></ul></li><li>Ethical hacking and defence<ul><li>Gain evaluation techniques to assess the security of network configuration and apply these skills to defend against network-based threats.</li></ul></li><li>Programming and cyber algorithms<ul><li>Explore the widely used Python programming language and learn how algorithms are used to solve cybersecurity challenges.</li></ul></li><li>Network engineering<ul><li>Study the architecture of computer networks and the internet, and examine protocols and services used in the defence of online information.</li></ul></li><li>Cyber governance and risk management<ul><li>Learn the frameworks for cybersecurity governance and risk mitigation based on your emerging understanding of business strategy and risk appetite.</li></ul></li></ul>

Discover how to safeguard businesses from digital threats. This course covers both IT fundamentals and cyber security techniques, so you can pursue opportunities across the ICT sector. You will also learn Python, one of the most used programming languages.

Bachelor of Cybersecurity

Introduction to Cybersecurity

In the modern Internet era, industries and organisations need to be prepared to defend against cyber threats and attacks. Stakeholders should be familiar with basic principles and best practices of cybersecurity to protect their businesses and personal information. In this subject, these principles and strategies for future cyber security are explored. Key topics include: information security; ethical and legal practices; mitigating cyber vulnerabilities; and the process of incident response and analysis. The subject introduces the broad discipline of cybersecurity and outlines how to ensure the privacy, reliability, confidentiality and integrity of information systems and mitigate against cyber threats and risks.

Explore the basic principles of cybersecurity. Get familiar with industry terminology, software, and best practices. You’ll learn about the importance of protecting data. Study real-world cyber threats and delve into current solutions.

Every organisation and business that intends to protect itself from threats of cyber-attacks needs to know current practices in cyber defence. This subject will introduce common technologies used to identify and mitigate threats including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, intrusion protection systems and honeypots. This subject also introduces incident response processes and simple ways to incorporate secure programming practices to make computer programs less vulnerable to attacks.

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