Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security

Build your IT expertise and get set for a high-demand industry by studying the Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security at Victoria University. This postgraduate information technology course covers the essential areas of cyber security, from proactive cyber threat detection and risk management to cyber law and regulations. You'll learn from academic staff with a strong research record in cyber security, and industry experts with significant cyber security experience. Guest lecturers with current experience in the cyber security industry complement the academic staff and provide insights on the latest developments in the field. Globally, cyber security is expected to have an annual growth of over 20% in the next five years.

With an increasing number of companies adopting cloud services and storage, valuable data and information systems are increasingly under threat from the hackers and industrial spies. Hackers can even penetrate enterprise networks, encrypt the hard drive of computers and extort the organisation or computer owners to pay for unlocking the systems. With a Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security, you can benefit from the increasing work opportunities associated with protecting computers, networks, information systems and data from unauthorised access, change or destruction. In addition to our undergraduate and postgraduate courses, we also have strong partnerships with leading companies in the industry. These include but not limited to AWS, Cisco, Microsoft and Oracle. Victoria University is an academy for a multitude of certification courses from these leading industries. This means, as our students, you will have the opportunity to study certification courses taught by seasoned lecturers and research academics within the IT discipline with discounted certification examination fees.