The Master of Cyber Security at Waikato is a pioneering postgraduate programme tailored for aspiring cyber security professionals. Students gain an in-depth understanding of preventative and offensive security, security breach detection, cloud computing, computer infrastructure, and the legal aspects of cyber security. The programme emphasises both theoretical and hands-on skill development, including penetration testing, malware analysis, and secure application engineering. Graduates are equipped to work in a fast-growing industry, with outstanding career prospects and direct links to national and international experts and organisations in the field.

Course Content

• COMPX508 Malware Analysis: Understand, analyse, and detect malicious code; reverse engineering; behavioural analysis.

• COMPX511 Cyber Security Operations: Cyber security operations and incident response.

• COMPX517 Vulnerability Analysis and Exploitation: Exploiting and analysing vulnerabilities in systems.

• COMPX527 Secure Cloud Application Engineering: Design, develop, and test secure cloud-native applications.

• COMPX515 Security for Advanced Networks: Internet security, attack/mitigation strategies, IoT and SDN threats.

• Legal Aspects of Cyber Security

• 500 Level Computer Science Electives

• COMPX592 Dissertation/Theoretical or empirical investigation

• Electives including Information Visualisation, Usability Engineering, Geographic Information Systems