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With a major in Cybersecurity from UWA, you will be ready for a range of specialist cybersecurity roles. With industry integrated learning, you will gain the knowledge, techniques, tools and practical skills to lead creation, implementation and management of secure computer systems, protecting people and their data from cyber-attacks.

With industry-integrated learning, this major will provide you with the knowledge, techniques, tools and practical skills to lead creation, implementation and management of secure computer systems to protect people and their data from cyber-attacks. A rapidly expanding field of IT, cybersecurity skills and expertise are increasingly in demand. Cybersecurity experts design, build, configure, and maintain secure computer systems They assess risks to determine how best to reduce the potential impact of breached systems and calculate the cost and benefit trade-offs in implementing secure systems. Employment opportunities exist across a wide range of industry sectors and job roles include user support technician, system administrator, program or application developer, project manager, and web specialist.

Why study this course

As a cybersecurity expert, you will be in high demand. According to LinkedIn Professional Jobseeker data, cybersecurity specialists are in the top five emerging careers. And the Federal Government estimates a need for 18,000 more cybersecurity employees by 2023*
The Cybersecurity major will provide you with the deep technical understanding employers are looking for
You can apply your tech skills and passion for computer science to make a real difference, keeping organisations and individuals safe from cyber crime

Career opportunities

Almost every Information and Communications Technology career path encompasses some aspect of security, including and beyond the job roles of cybersecurity specialist, information technology specialist, software engineer or information specialist.

Cybersecurity career opportunities continue to grow across all industries including energy and resources engineering, bioinformatics and biochemistry, computational physics and astronomy, transportation, health, finance, marketing, geophysics, geographic information systems and biomechanics.