Overview
Cybersecurity professionals are expected to design, analyse and validate computer systems and networks to maintain operational continuity in the face of attacks. In this unit, you will learn about common types of attacks and the tools and techniques used to prevent, detect and respond to them. You will develop skills in virtualisation and cloud services to address cybersecurity challenges. Additionally, you will gain experience with specialised cybersecurity tools for detecting vulnerabilities, monitoring network traffic and responding to attacks.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-Requisite: COIT11238 Networked Infrastructure Foundations.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Teaching Team Reflections
Some students have computers that have difficulty running the required virtual machines.
Provide a cloud-hosted alternative for running virtual machines.
Feedback from Teaching Team Reflections and Student Evaluations
The assessment tasks are individual and overly prescriptive. Unfortunately, the assessment has lost the original 'detective hunt' experience.
Revise the recent assessment tasks to incorporate group work and exploratory learning.