Cyber Security and Forensic Computing - BSc (Hons)

Our Cyber Security and Forensic Computing degree course will enable you to develop the expertise to assess and manage cyber risks, investigate cyber incidents, and protect digital assets from cyber threats. You’ll learn critical skills in networking technologies, and methodologies required to ensure that systems are protected from cyber-attacks as well as digital forensic techniques for finding and analysing data from crime scenes.

Our lives, businesses, and governance are moving online at pace. Cyber security and forensic computing has become an essential area of expertise, with career opportunities booming. Gain a comprehensive understanding of cyber security and forensic computing principles, including network security, cryptography, cyber threat intelligence, digital forensics, and incident response.

Modules in ethical hacking and cryptography will equip you with the skills to undertake complex analysis and suggest contingencies for ensuring systems are secure and impenetrable. Our courses at ARU Peterborough are designed to help you become a life-long learner, ready to pivot in your career and respond to changes in this fast-moving industry.

When you graduate from this course, you will have developed your powers of autonomous and analytical thinking, learned the essential skills valued by employers in the IT sector, and have experienced multi-disciplinary team-working which mirrors real-world industry standards.

96 UCAS Tariff points from a minimum of 2 A Levels (or equivalent). 5 GCSEs at grade C, or grade 4, or above, including English and Maths. If English is not your first language you will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 6.0 (Academic level) or equivalent English Language qualification, as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University. An International Baccalaureate with a minimum of 24 points. IELTS 6.0 with 5.5 in each element. TOEFL iBT with 80 overall and a minimum of 17 in Writing and Listening, 18 in Reading and 20 in Speaking.