MCSC701:
Security Engineering (5 ECTS)
This foundation module covers core data protection principles, asset tracking, and threat
modelling techniques using structural STRIDE methods. Students write clean code to configure secure
operating system baselines and build secure design patterns. The course focuses majorly on handling
privilege levels, applying system access controls, and reviewing architectural risk.
MCSC702:
Computer Networks and Protocol Security (5 ECTS)
Students look into network layer models, protocol encapsulation rules, and layered
architecture vulnerabilities across corporate systems. The module guides you through configuring
firewall rules, setting up virtual private networks, and analysing live packet streams. Every week
focuses on identifying routing threats, managing TLS handshakes, and deploying network telemetry
monitoring.
MCSC703:
Operating Systems and Systems Security (5 ECTS)
Developing deep operating system architecture expertise forms the main goal, starting with binary
arithmetic straight into memory segments of the program. Students examine running process layouts,
explore kernel privilege level boundaries, and track system calls in virtual environments. This
module enables students to detect memory corruption errors and allow platform mitigation such as
secure boot.
MCSC704:
Applied Cryptography and Post-Quantum Migration (5 ECTS)
This module covers symmetric and asymmetric primitives, encryption mechanisms, and key
derivation functions. Students practise in running a certificate authority, performing public-key
configurations, and handling full lifecycle of keys. Subsequent weeks focus on post-quantum
cryptography threats, post-quantum cryptography algorithms benchmarking, and designing corporate
infrastructure for flexible cryptography migration.
MCSC705:
Cloud, Identity and Platform Security (5 ECTS)
In this module, students focus on learning shared responsibility models, cloud identity
access management policies, and zero-trust identity architecture. Here, students get practical
experience in auditing permission sprawl, securing container images, and developing guardrails using
policy-as-code. The course ends with multi-account landing zone governance, software bill of
material generation, and protection of serverless infrastructures.
MCSC706:
Governance, Risk, Compliance and Audit (5 ECTS)
The module begins with information security management systems, corporate risk
frameworks, and steps for drafting policy hierarchies. Here, students will learn about ISO 27001
requirements, NIST Framework mappings, and global data privacy regulations. In the later stages of
the module, the emphasis is on assessing supply chain risks and conducting risk-based audit planning
and reporting.
MCSC707:
Secure Software and Data Security (5 ECTS)
This module introduces defensive programming foundations using the Java runtime
environment model to validate untrusted input streams. You will practise object-oriented design
isolation, safe data serialisation, and secure relational database schema design. The course
finishes by exploring parameterised SQL queries, database role access controls, and automated
software testing tools.
MCSC708:
Penetration Testing and Offensive Security (5 ECTS)
Through this module, students learn to map attack surfaces using passive reconnaissance
tools, network scanning, and vulnerability enumeration techniques. Students use authorised hacking
frameworks to gain initial access, escalate local privileges, and pivot through target networks. The
module covers web application API attacks, persistence tracking, and structuring professional
penetration test reports.
MCSC709:
Security Operations, Detection and Incident Response (5 ECTS)
This operational module builds capabilities in SIEM platform query development, log data
normalisation pipelines, and threat intelligence tracking. Students map malicious intrusions to the
MITRE ATT&CK framework and author automated detection engineering rules. The training path finishes
by executing incident response playbooks and managing crisis communications during simulated
breaches.
MCSC710:
Malware Analysis and Digital Forensics (5 ECTS)
Students learn to triage harmful computer bugs inside isolated sandbox lab rooms using
static and dynamic analysis tools. The course covers file header inspection, YARA rule signature
authoring, code disassembly, and anti-analysis evasion bypass steps. Students also master volatile
memory acquisition, forensic disk imaging, and reconstructing timeline artefacts for expert
testimony reports.
MCSC711:
AI Systems Security (5 ECTS)
This cutting-edge module covers machine learning attack surfaces, adversarial evasion
tactics, and training dataset poisoning protections. Students demonstrate model extraction flaws and
mitigate prompt injection bugs inside retrieval-augmented generation tools. The curriculum
integrates a strong focus on agentic tool constraints, model provenance verification, and structured
AI red teaming methodologies.
MCSC712:
Advanced Computing Research Methods (5 ECTS)
This module teaches students to frame clear computing research questions, conduct
systematic literature reviews, and design empirical experiments. You will practise qualitative
coding analysis, descriptive statistical math testing, and research data management plan writing. It
ends with research ethics governance, coordinated vulnerability disclosure rules, and formal
academic proposal development.
