Master of Science in Cyber Security and Management Singapore Institute of Management (SIM)

Developed, fully taught and awarded by the University of Warwick, UK.

The University of Warwick is one of the UK’s leading research universities, with an acknowledged reputation for excellence in research and teaching, for innovation and for links with business and industry.

Programme Highlights:

• Three-way participation: University + Organisation + Participant
• Combine academic excellence with industrial experience
• Developed with industry to address real-world problems
• First-hand understanding of issues facing modern business and industry
• Application-based assignments and projects

Cyber security is not merely about the Internet. Our dependence on multiple, complex, interacting digital systems grows day by day. Vehicles, architectural infrastructure, industrial controls, finance flows and medical devices all operate across the cyber domain.

In this programme, you get the opportunity to learn:

• Strategic development and implementation of Cyber Security within an organization
• Understand the Cyber threat to an organization and its resources
• Build and support secure systems that support the strategic growth of a business
• All aspects of Cyber Security including network security, computer security and information security
• The most important technical concepts of security – such as encryption, intrusion detection, penetration testing, access control, digital forensics and investigation, risk management, security governance and network security.

Career Prospects/Further Education

Graduates can expect to go on to work within corporate information – security and technology teams, consultancies, government information-security departments, management tracks in information critical organisations and cyber security related research.

Recent Cyber MSc graduates have gone onto roles within companies such as: Accenture (Senior Cyber Security Consultant), Canary Wharf (Information Security Analyst), Indonesian Ministry of Finance (Information Security Analyst), JP Morgan (Glasgow)(Technology Analyst), KPMG (IT Advisory, Cyber Security), Deloitte (Senior Consultant), ABN Amro (Risk Assessor), Bank of Thailand (Cyber Security Analyst), IBM (Security Project Manager), Ministry of Defence, PWC (IT Risk and Resilience Team), Royal Mail (Information Security Analyst), Emtel Ltd (IT Product Development – Cyber Security), National Information Technology Development Agency of Nigeria (Information Security Analyst), Facebook (Marketing Specialist in Community Operations), Global Network (Programs Executive), PWC (Forensic Technologies & Information Security Analyst), Singapore Police (Senior Investigation Officer), TRB Lightweight Structures (Software Developer), CISCO (Network Consulting Engineer), Tata Consultancy Services (Quality and Security Analyst for TCS-Nokia account).

Graduates can also explore pursuing a Doctorate with the University.