Open University

网络安全硕士

Knowledge and understanding

On completion of this qualification, you’ll have knowledge and understanding of:

• A range of cyber security tools, techniques, and systems and their application to business, societal and personal requirements
• The use of theory, practice and practical constraints to solve cybersecurity problems
• Cyber security systems, their development, specification and use, allowing their evaluation against a range of criteria such as related standards, codes of practice, quality and evaluation frameworks.

Cognitive skills

On completion of this qualification, you’ll be able to:

• Integrate knowledge and skills from various sources into a coherent whole, making appropriate abstractions
• Deal with complex issues both systematically and creatively, using appropriate tools and techniques, notations and formalisms
• 开展原创、独立、实用的项目，在研究、开发、评估和审查之间取得适当平衡，并有效地传达项目目标、流程和结果。

Practical and/or professional skills

完成此资格认证后，您将能够：

• Recognise and respond to opportunities for innovation in cybersecurity
• Recognise social, legal, professional and ethical responsibilities and their appropriate application
• Critically evaluate developments in cyber security including the identification of limitations and risks, legal issues, cultural and ethical impact and societal and business needs
• Identify needs, articulate goals, locate and employ resources and follow action plans in support of independent learning and professional development.

Key skills

完成此资格认证后，您将能够：

• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, using appropriate channels and media and where appropriate incorporating research and practice from the forefront of the cyber security discipline and professional practice
• Make and articulate decisions, including collating appropriate evidence and opinions, even in the presence of incomplete information
• Independently apply problem solving principles; using appropriate underpinning knowledge and skills
• Review, evaluate, reflect on and critique your own work and the work of others, engaging in peer review processes that lead to innovation and improvement.

To gain this qualification, you need 180 credits as follows:

Stage 1 (120 credits)

120 个学分来自：

• Information Security (M811)
• Digital Forensics (M812)
• Systems Security (M817)
• Network Security (T828)

Stage 2 (60 credits)

You’ll choose either:

• A Research route
• A Professional route

Research route

60 credits from:

• Research project (T802)

Professional route

30 credits from:

• MSc project: researching in context (T803)

Or, subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued module T847.

30 credits from:

• Data management (M816)
• Project management (M815)
• Software development (M813)
• Software engineering (M814)
• Strategic capabilities for technological innovation (T849)
• Technology and innovation management (TB801)

Or, subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued modules T848 and U810.

您应该注意到，大学独特的学习规则适用于此资格。这意味着您必须包括至少 60 个 OU 模块学分，这些学分未计入您之前获得的任何其他 OU 资格中。特别注意，您只能将以下模块的学分计入单个资格：研究项目 (T802)；理学硕士项目：情境研究 (T803)。

Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods

您将使用在线教学文本、CD、DVD 和在线多媒体包、教科书和学术及行业论文的指导阅读以及专门的软件工具进行自主学习。

We’ll support your learning with:

• Self-assessment questions and exercises
• 基于计算机的调查、任务和活动
• Project work
• Feedback and guidance from tutors and other subject specialists
• Computer conferences and other online forums
• Study guides, information and guidance packs.

We’ll assess your learning using some or all of the following:

• 交互式计算机标记作业 (iCMA)
• Tutor-marked assessments (TMAs)
• Formal examinations
• 模块结束评估 (EMA)
• 进度和项目报告。

There will be opportunities for you to:

• Apply your learning in practical contexts, for example by reflecting on your own engagement with computing systems in a home, work or social setting
• Engage with fellow students, tutors, subject practitioners and academic specialists in online groups
• Engage with research papers and industry white papers at the forefront of the discipline
• Gain exposure to the professional and employability discussions that are shaping the computing profession.

网络安全研究生课程模块面向需要发展或更新网络安全领域技能和知识并获得认可资格以发展职业生涯的专业安全专家、计算机专家、工程师、技术经理和科学家。这些课程旨在将网络安全的理论和实践相结合，使您成为该行业的高效专业人士。

此外，他们还旨在通过提供适当的教育活动来鼓励您培养适用于您的工作和持续专业发展的学习和可转移技能。