赫瑞瓦特大學(xué)-迪拜校區(qū)

This unique programme provides international students with the opportunity to study, in one full time or two years part time, fundamental and advanced security topics such as cryptography, penetration testing, digital forensics, IT security management, and ISO 27001. Heriot-Watt University is proud to be the first university in the UAE to make available to international students an MSc in Network Security with such advanced topics.

The aim of both the MSc and the Postgraduate Diploma in Network Security is to provide our graduates with the fundamental knowledge and practical skills required for a Network Security-related professional position in an organisation.

The programme covers topics such as securing enterprise Infrastructures, building and securing wireless networks, penetration testing (ethical hacking) and security audit, as well as network and security administration.

Students undertake four courses in semester 1 and a further four courses in semester 2.

On this programme, the following taught courses are mandatory:

Computer Network Security
Industrial Programming
Advanced Network Security
Research Methods and Project Planning

Students can then choose four courses from the following:

Network Applications
Mobile Communications and Programming
Database and Information Systems
Software Engineering Foundations
Advanced Software Engineering
Big Data Management
Rigorous Methods for Software Engineering
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Data Communications and Networking
Digital Forensics

In addition to these taught courses, students pursuing the MSc qualification undertake a Master’s project, which culminates in a dissertation.

Career

New career opportunities and prospects for career enhancement are both excellent. Security vulnerabilities, and hence countermeasures, appear on a daily basis. The new security threats target industry, commerce and the public sector resulting in an increasing demand for experts who can design, implement and maintain secure infrastructures.