Undergraduate Major

Cyberspace, Policy and Security

Are you fascinated by cyberspace and cybersecurity issues? Want to roll your interest in cybercrime, security and technology into one degree? Cyberspace, Policy and Security is the major for you.

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Overview

Cybersecurity is the practice of deploying people, policies, processes and technologies to protect systems and information. 

In a world that increasingly relies on information technology, cybercrimes have emerged as a major global security threat – costing around $1 trillion a year.

The Cyberspace, Policy and Security Major provides you with critical understandings of contemporary challenges to security, particularly how transnational crime, terrorist organisations and state actors seek to exploit our reliance on information technology. 

This major combines technical, security and criminology units to provide students with highly-relevant professional skills in security, intelligence, policy, governance, investigation and law enforcement.  You'll gain understandings of the architecture, operation and protection of IT systems, consider critical issues in the governance and implementation of cyber security, explore the roles of government and industry in ensuring cybersecurity, and identify the processes by which cybercrime is investigated and prosecuted.

3 reasons to study Cyberspace, Policy & Security at Murdoch

  1. In Australia, cybersecurity is recognised as one of the country’s principal security risks – a concern that escalated during the Covid pandemic due to our increased dependence on the internet, meaning there are many employment opportunities. 
  2. Students at Murdoch are able to explore work integrated learning opportunities to work alongside industry partners and gain practical experience.
  3. Murdoch students get a competitive advantage in their career as they explore national and international security issues, particularly in relation to the Middle East, Southeast and South Asia, where our teaching staff have special expertise.

What you’ll learn

  • Cyber security and its challenges in policy, governance, technical, and enforcement contexts.
  • Competing strategies, theoretical understandings, and sources of knowledge that inform approaches to cyber security.
  • How to apply technical skills, investigative strategies and theoretical approaches in order to solve real-world problems and design cyber security solutions.
  • How to design and manage projects of increasing sophistication, involving ethical inquiry, while working independently and with others. 

Your career

Your degree could be a step towards an incredible career. You could put your creative thinking and language skills to work in a range of roles, such as:

  • Cyberspace Policy Analyst
  • Systems Analyst
  • Cyber Security Consultant
  • Information Security Officer
  • Policy Advisor

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Total credit points: 24

Unit code Unit name Credit points
Major24 credit points
Required Units15 credit points
POL108Politics, Society and Technology3
POL208Security and Technology3
ICT169Foundations of Data Communications3
ICT171Introduction to Server Environments and Architectures3
CRM100Introduction to Criminology3
Specified Elective Units9 credit points
CRM207Investigation and Evidence3
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CRM230White Collar Crime3
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CRM303Technology, Crime and Justice3
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ICT279Security Architectures and Controls3
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ICT280Information Security Policy and Governance3
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POL202Policing and the Politics of Counterterrorism3
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POL234Violent Extremism and Radicalisation in a Globalised World3
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POL304Security Challenges in Policy and Practice 3
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POL306The Politics of Human Rights3
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English Requirements

You must meet a minimum standard in English to study at Murdoch, which for most courses can be demonstrated by providing evidence that you have completed Year 11 and 12 in Australia at any level if you are a domestic student, or through either English proficiency tests, university preparation courses, English language courses, previous tertiary study or vocational education.

Advanced Standing

Everyone has a different path to university so if you’ve already completed formal or informal learning, you could receive advanced standing. Also known as recognition of prior learning, advanced standing can reduce the amount of study needed to complete your degree by giving you credit for certain units.

Formal learning can include previous study in higher education vocational education or adult and community education. Informal learning can include on the job learning, various kinds of work and life experience.

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This information applies to courses offered at our Australian campuses only. Courses offered at our Dubai  and Singapore campuses or delivered by Open Universities Australia may have different requirements.

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Following your successful application, you’ll receive a Letter of Offer which will contain specific course and fee information.

If you are applying for an undergraduate course, you may be eligible for a Commonwealth Supported Place. Postgraduate programs are full fee paying, unless indicated otherwise in your Letter of Offer.

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