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Why study Cyber Security?

Cyber Security is becoming increasingly crucial in our interconnected world, impacting every aspect of our lives from personal privacy to national security. By studying a Cyber Security related degree, you position yourself at the forefront of this vital field.

Whether you’re interested in threat analysis, ethical hacking, digital forensics, or even cyber policy and governance, the possibilities are vast. By studying a Cyber Security related degree, you’ll gain the tools to make a meaningful impact.

Here at the University of Huddersfield, we offer a range of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels relating to Cyber Security, all informed by world-leading research in the field. You’ll have the opportunity to study alongside our award-winning academic colleagues, access specialist facilities, or you could choose to study remotely through our distance learning courses.

What can you do with a degree in Cyber Security?

A degree in Cyber Security equips you with the skills needed to tackle a wide range of challenges in today’s digital world. You can pursue roles such as threat analyst, ethical hacker, digital forensics expert, or cyber policy advisor. You might work for tech companies, financial institutions, government agencies, or healthcare organizations. With the expertise you gain from a Cyber Security degree, you can develop and implement security protocols to protect critical infrastructure, design systems to safeguard personal data, and work to prevent cyber attacks on a global scale. Studying Cyber Security at Huddersfield will allow you to tailor your career to your interests, giving you the tools to make a significant impact in the ever-evolving field of cyber security.

Our courses

The Centre for Cyber Security

The Centre of Cyber Security Research at the University of Huddersfield is an expanding group of leading academics who, over the last 5 years have established Cyber Security as one of the Department’s strengths. Research in the Centre focuses on addressing practical security challenges, which are important for business and society.

Our experts

We have many experts in Cyber security. Here is one of them:

Professor Simon Parkinson

Professor in Computer Science

Simon is a Professor of Cyber Security and a Member of the UK Government’s Cyber Security Advisory Board. His research expertise and interests span Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, with focused areas on identity and access

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Prof Andrew Crampton

Professor in Computer Science

Andrew’s current research focuses on applications of machine learning, however, Andrew has also successfully supervised more than ten PhD students covering areas in disc-brake vibration analysis, SCADA systems, network security and 3d printing.

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Dr Saad Khan

Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security

Developing intelligent systems for cyber security and digital forensics. This involves various research areas such as Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), access control and authentication, vulnerability assessment and anomaly detection.

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Cyber Security Blogs

Why work in Cyber Security?

Use the latest technologies and strategies to shield organisations and individuals from cyberattacks.

Centre for Cyber Security

Cyber Security focuses on addressing practical security challenges, which are important for business and society. In the areas of Identity and Access Control, Defence and Resilience, and Digital Forensics.

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Centre for Sustainable Computing

Sustainable computing systems are those which are explicitly designed for continuous maintainability and evolvability without incurring prohibitive technical debt and making a negative impact on the environment, economy and society.

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Centre for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems

We develop intelligent machines capable of independent decision-making and task execution, with the main objectives of enabling agents to perceive, understand, and interact with their environment.

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