Cyber Resilience

Examine how secure and resilient computer systems can be designed, implemented and evaluated throughout the software development lifecycle, analysing threat models, security failures and vulnerabilities to understand how they arise and how resilient engineering principles can counter them. You will explore techniques including secure programming, defensive design, applied cryptography and formal methods for specifying and validating security protocols, applying these across a range of secure distributed system contexts. The module prepares you for the organisational realities of cybersecurity: you will investigate incident response strategies, breach containment and risk mitigation, alongside the legal and ethical responsibilities of cybersecurity practitioners managing real security incidents. Sustainability and professional considerations run throughout, equipping you to design digital infrastructures that are trustworthy, secure and built to endure.