Unit name | Cybersecurity Project |
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Unit code | MATHM0027 |
Credit points | 60 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Professor. Johnson |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
To depend on specific project, but to include core units of MSc |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Mathematics |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
Students will be required to develop and implement a novel solution to a relevant problem in cybersecurity; they will be assigned to a project in small groups by the Unit Organiser, and will be expected to work collaboratively. They will be required to engage with existing literature and solutions, to develop a solution as a group and to present the solution both in an individual written and a group oral presentation. Where possible, this solution should be tested with real or synthetic cybersecurity data, and careful consideration should be given to how any solution will perform in practice and scale with increasing amounts of data.
The projects offered will vary each year, and each project will have a different specific focus. In terms of general skills, by the end of the unit the student will have:
ILO1 Synthesised information presented in taught courses and research papers.
ILO2 Developed experience and skills in report-writing and oral presentation
ILO3 Developed experience and skills in working collaboratively, recording progress and sharing code.
ILO4 Gained experience in developing a novel solution on a project with a fixed deadline, and in taking ownership of and managing a project.
ILO5 Where projects are presented by external or industrial partners, students will have liaised appropriately and professionally to report interim progress as appropriate.
Guidance from supervisor through group meetings, leading to group work and an individual written report. The supervisor will provide explicit feedback on one draft of the written project and on one draft of the slides for the final talk.
To depend on specific project