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Everything You Need to Build Job-Ready Cyber Security Skills
Build job-ready Cyber Security skills through hands-on labs, real-world scenarios, and dedicated career support. You'll learn from industry professionals with experience at leading consultancies and enterprises, complete a capstone project, and receive Job Outcomes Program support to help refine your resume, strengthen your profile, and prepare for your next career opportunity.
Industry Credentials
Graduate with a UTS certificate of completion and CCSP™ industry certification from the Institute of Data.
Hands-on learning
Run offensive and defensive exercises, work through incident response playbooks, and apply security frameworks to real business scenarios.
Real industry trainers
Learn from Cyber Security leaders working at consultancies like Publicis Sapient, Macquarie Group, and the big four.
Job-search support
Access 1:1 career coaching, interview prep, and support.
Job outcomes success within 180 days of completion*
Career support available for up to 12 months after course completion
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Industry Credentials
Graduate with a UTS certificate of completion and CCSP™ industry certification from the Institute of Data.
Hands-on learning
Run offensive and defensive exercises, work through incident response playbooks, and apply security frameworks to real business scenarios.
Real industry trainers
Learn from Cyber Security leaders working at consultancies like Publicis Sapient, Macquarie Group, and the big four.
Job-search support
Access 1:1 career coaching, interview prep, and support.
*Read our full graduate outcomes report here
From understanding the attacker's mindset to defending enterprise systems in the cloud
Build the portfolio that gets you hired. You'll run offensive and defensive exercises, work through real-world incident scenarios, study cyber breach case studies, and deliver a capstone project.
Module 1:
Cybersecurity Fundamentals
Start with the core language and economics of security: how attack and defence trade off, how compliance differs from security, and the role encryption plays.
- A game of defence and attack, ruled on both sides by economics
- Compliance vs Security
- Definitions and language
Encryption - Cyber Security Practice (ongoing)
Module 2:
Risk Management
Learn to identify, assess and treat the cyber risks businesses care about most, using real breach case studies like ransomware and business email compromise.
- Business Email Compromise
- Intellectual Property Theft
- Ransomware
- Other notable case studies
- Risk Treatment
- Cyber Security Practice (ongoing)
Module 3:
Information Technology Foundations
Build the technical foundations the rest of the course relies on: how networks, systems and the cloud work, and how authentication keeps them secure.
- Networks and network protocols
- Authentication
- Systems
- Cloud Computing
- Cyber Security Practice (ongoing)
Module 4:
Consulting and Interpersonal Skills
Cyber security is about people as much as technology. Build the consulting, communication and project skills that turn technical findings into action.
- Questioning technique
- Critical thinking
- Documentation
- Presentation skills
- Strategy & Project Management
- Cyber Security Practice (ongoing)
Module 5:
Offensive Cyber Security Concepts & Techniques
Step into the attacker's shoes: how adversaries think, the technical attacks and tooling they use, and the OWASP risks every defender should know.
- The attacker's mindset
- Technical attacks
- Attack software and tooling
- OWASP
- Cyber Security Practice (ongoing)
Module 6:
The Defensive Mindset
Switch to the defender's view: design defensive architecture, protect assets and perimeters, and use monitoring and threat intelligence to stay ahead of attacks.
- Economics of defence
- Defensive architecture
- Assets and perimeters
- Logs and monitoring
- Threat intelligence
- Cyber Security Practice (ongoing)
Module 7:
Incident Response
When a breach happens, response is everything. Learn to build and run incident playbooks, manage an incident end to end, and communicate clearly in a crisis.
- Security vs ITIL
- Incident playbooks
- Incident management
- Crisis communication
- Cyber Security Practice (ongoing)
Module 8:
DevSecOps: Securing In-House Development
Security has to be built in, not bolted on. Learn to secure software across the full development lifecycle, from home-grown tools to AppSec and DevSecOps.
- Full lifecycle of "home-grown" tools
- Development frameworks
- Software Development Lifecycle
- AppSec / DevSecOps
- Cyber Security Practice (ongoing)
Module 9:
Vendor and Supply Chain Security
Most breaches enter through a third party. Learn to secure the corporate supply chain and manage the third-party lifecycle, while your capstone project gets underway.
- Corporate supply chain
- Third party lifecycle
- Case studies
- Cyber Security Practice (ongoing)
- Capstone Project (ongoing)
Module 10:
Compliance and Compliance Frameworks
Tie it together with the governance side of security: the categories of compliance, how governance and risk assurance differ, and the frameworks and policies businesses rely on.
- Categories of compliance
- Governance vs Risk Assurance vs Compliance
- Common frameworks
- Security policies and related documents
- Cyber Security Practice (ongoing)
- Capstone Project (ongoing)
Module 11:
Ongoing Content
Ongoing support that runs alongside the whole course, plus your capstone project. Extra topics are shaped by students and the lead trainer.
- Additional Topics: determined by students and Lead Trainer
- Job Outcomes Program
- Consultation and Presentation training
- Cyber Security Practice
- Capstone Project
Linux Pre-work Included
40–60 hours of interactive Linux fundamentals sent immediately after enrolment — no prior coding experience needed.
Graduate Success Stories
Every graduate started where you are now: weighing up whether a career in Cyber Security was possible. These are the people who decided to find out, and what happened next.
Gregory De Jersey
From Security Enthusiast to Cyber Security Maestro
Confronted with health challenges, Gregory De Jersey found himself at a career crossroads, prompting a decisive shift towards a field that leveraged his intellectual prowess.
"Going with the Institute of Data was one of the best decisions I've ever made."
Matt
From hospitality to Cyber Security Analyst.
Matt was passionate about building his cyber career and focused on gaining practical cyber security skills to land a job quickly in the industry.
"My career outlook has been completely turned around since upskilling and coming into the cyber security industry."
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Everything included — UTS certificate, industry certification, and career support
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Everything Included
- 400+ training and project hours
- Linux pre-work modules (30–40 hrs)
- CCSP™ Industry Certification
- UTS Certificate of completion
- Job Outcomes Program (12m)
- 1:1 career coaching sessions
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