Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics with Integrated Foundation Year

About this course

Cybersecurity and digital forensics address two sides of the same problem: how to protect digital systems from attack, and how to investigate and understand what happens when attacks succeed. Cybersecurity is concerned with the design and maintenance of secure systems, the identification of vulnerabilities, the management of risk and the response to incidents. Digital forensics applies the methods of scientific investigation to digital evidence, recovering and analysing data from devices, networks and cloud environments in ways that can support legal proceedings, organisational investigations or intelligence analysis. Together they form a coherent discipline for anyone who wants to work at the intersection of technology, law and security. This four-year full-time degree at the University of Sunderland includes a sandwich year with a work placement and a year abroad, giving you significa

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 60% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 72 / 100Information Technology Professionals · 40% of graduatescards →
• 68 / 100Customer service occupations · 0% of graduatescards →
• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 0% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Science, engineering and technology associate professionals · 15% of graduatescards →

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