Computer Networks and Security

• Engineering Council accredited degree

• Covers Cisco syllabus, not just to Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) level but beyond that to the higher Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) level

• Provides an opportunity to get the Cisco qualifications

• Excellent specialist computer network laboratories

• Placements are available in companies including Cisco Systems (UK), Oracle, IBM, BT, Eurocopter, Logica, Cisco, AstraZeneca, Syngenta, British Airways, JCB, Reuters, NHS and a number of County Councils. Many companies return to us each year seeking only Staffordshire University computing placement students

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Computer Networks are vital to any modern organisation. Computer security is paramount within computer systems process and communication over a wide variety of data over computer networks. In turn, the computer safety and viability of commercial systems are continually under threat from malicious attacks or even inadvertent damage, which can undermine public confidence and fuel criminal activity. The component of a computer system that is most commonly exploited to breach the computer security of commercial systems is the computer networks. This award provides you with detailed knowledge on network technology and skills in computer networks, computer systems engineering, computer science and computer security and should enable you to pursue a career in the areas of computer networks, computer security or network security.

The first year provides a general grounding in computing skills and network technology, and also introduces you to security technologies, computer science and covers the first stages of CCNA.  The following years will see you deepen and extend your technical knowledge of networking to cover CCNA and CCNP and will cover units from the Cisco network security syllabus.  You will also specialise in computer security, malicious attacks and countermeasures. 

As part of your award you will be paticipating in the CISCO Networking Academy programme and will be preparing for CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and CISCO Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certification.

Further-more, by studying this award you will understand the computer science that underpins the network technology, computer networks, and computer security, the theoretical foundations and practical techniques for the implementation and application in computer systems engineering.   

Your networking knowledge and skills can be used to support and manage information computer networks in any organisation that uses them.

Today’s corporations depend on their information computer networks for mission-critical operations and are looking for highly trained networking professionals to keep them running at maximum performance. Businesses need graduates with specialised skills to help protect their systems and data. Qualified networking experts are in short supply and high demand – there are currently more CISCO networking jobs available than professionals to fill them.

Given the mix of skills achievable as part of this award, you would be ideally placed to work specifically in network security.

Graduates with exceptional abilities may continue their studies for a taught postgraduate MSc degree or onto postgraduate research for an MPhil or PhD degree.

• BSc/BEng Network Computing
• BSc/BEng Computer Secuirty
• BSc/BEng Forensic Computing

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