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Study Graduate Certificate in Business Cyber Security online through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

Throughout the course, you will cover key IT areas including programming, environmental security, software engineering and software development. With the rise of emerging and smart technologies, your subjects will teach you how to effectively design and develop secure, innovative ICT solutions to business problems.Tailor your study to your lifestyle thanks to our innovative digital learning system, accessible from anywhere with 24/7 personalised support. With all your course materials online, and the option to study full or part time, on-campus, online or a blend of both it&#39;s all about flexibility.Course duration: 1 trimester full time, 3 trimesters part time.

Design and develop secure, innovative ICT solutions to business problems. You’ll work on the principles of programming and explore emerging technologies. Future-proof your career with research into software engineering, security and more.

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Introduction to Cybersecurity

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Applied Cyber Security

This subject was previously titled &quot;Protective Security&quot;. Protective security relates to security governance (including supporting a positive security culture), information security (including cyber security), personnel security (including employees and contractors) and physical security (providing a safe and secure physical environment for an organisation’s people, information and assets). This fully online subject provides you with a thorough understanding of the concepts and practical applications of protective security. You will gain an appreciation of the issues and elements that underlie the practice of protective security and draw upon theoretical concepts, real life case studies and relevant standards. This subject will provide you with the knowledge and skills to translate and communicate theoretical concepts in protective security into tangible outputs for industry. This subject, together with crisis management, business continuity management, and the ability to lead resilient organisations, are collectively the underpinning foundation for enhancing organisational resilience. The subject provides you with an understanding and the requisite skills that will be interrelated with these subjects should you proceed further with your postgraduate studies in organisational resilience.

Organisational Security Management

This subject was previously known as Social Media, Communities and Networks.Digital and social media offers many opportunities for people to create and share media content and information, engage in social interaction, and build communities and networks. Social media platforms now play a major role in bringing people together - whether to connect with others with shared experiences or interests, maintain social relationships, advance political causes, or for commercial and self-branding purposes. In this subject, you will investigate the opportunities and possibilities, as well as harms and social problems, that arise in relation to social media communities and networks. You will develop knowledge and skills to become more thoughtful and effective in navigating such. This knowledge is key for digital content creation, policy development work, and online community and network building.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject, you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Surf online worlds, communities and sub-cultures. Explore the relationship between technology and social bonding. Plug into gaming, social and Indigenous online networks. Analyse how on and offline ways of communicating are beginning to blur.

The ability to collect, analyse, and communicate intelligence is critical for national and organisational security. This unit explores the role of cyber intelligence in identifying and responding to Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)—state-linked or highly organised groups that conduct sustained and sophisticated cyber operations. Students will learn to map cyber-attacks using the MITRE ATT&amp;CK framework, apply open-source intelligence (OSINT) techniques to investigate threat actors, and produce actionable intelligence reports. The unit also examines Australia’s cyber defence policies, relevant legal frameworks, and broader national security priorities, offering insight into the policy landscape in which cyber intelligence operates. Drawing on real-world case studies and practical exercises, students will develop the skills needed to assess complex cyber threats, communicate effectively across professional environments, and contribute to national and institutional intelligence capabilities in an increasingly contested digital environment.

National Cyber Intelligence

This unit explores the methods, motivations, and impacts of cybercrime, from financially driven attacks to technology-facilitated violence. As digital threats grow in scale and complexity, understanding how offenders operate and how systems are exploited is essential for effective prevention and response. Students will examine key cybercrime typologies, the tools and techniques used by cybercriminals, and the evolving tactics that underpin malicious activity in digital environments. The unit also introduces the incident response lifecycle, offering a structured foundation for identifying, managing, and mitigating cyber incidents. Through applied analysis, simulation, and collaborative activities, students will gain practical skills in threat identification, attacker profiling, and response strategy development. Legal and policy frameworks relevant to cybercrime will also be considered. By the end of the unit, students will be equipped to assess the impact of cyber threats, apply key principles of incident response, and develop foundational plans and reports to support organisational resilience.

Cyber Crime and Methods

As digital threats become increasingly entangled with geopolitical tensions, cyber operations have emerged as strategic tools to advance national interests and disrupt adversaries. This unit investigates the evolving landscape of cyber conflict, focusing on how nation-states and sophisticated non-state actors shape power dynamics in cyberspace. Students will critically assess the capabilities, strategies, and influence of key actors in cyberspace, while exploring the broader geopolitical and social contexts that inform their actions. The unit examines major challenges in cyber attribution, the limitations of existing cyber governance frameworks, and efforts to establish international norms. Through the analysis of real-world cyber incidents and policy responses, students will engage with contemporary debates on cyber offence, defence, and resilience. By the end of the unit, students will be able to evaluate cyber threats, assess defence strategies, and formulate evidence-based recommendations to strengthen national cyber security in response to an increasingly dynamic and contested digital environment.

Cyber Warfare

The subject begins with a broad examination of cybercrime and moves to a specific focus on cyber fraud. The subject explores contemporary criminological theoretical approaches to explaining cyber fraud, analyses offender methodologies and examines cyber fraud victimology. The subject addresses contemporary approaches to prevention and enforcement in Australia and across the world. The role of relevant government, law enforcement, regulatory agencies and the corporate and private sector in the prevention and detection of cyber fraud is addressed.

Understanding and Preventing Cyber Fraud

This subject was previously known as PICX808 Cyber Terrorism and Information WarfareThis subject provides an overview of the new and developing threats that cyberspace brings in terms of global security and the implications for corporate, law enforcement and national security responses. The course will analyse cyber attacks involving both nation state actors and non-nation state actors with political motives (including terrorists) through historical, operational and strategic perspectives. Students will gain an understanding of various definitions of cyber espionage, cyber terrorism, cyber warfare and information warfare. They will also be able to analyse how nation states and non-nation state actors utilise the Internet as an attack vector in information warfare to infiltrate digital systems to gain control of critical infrastructure. The subject is interactive and students are expected to actively participate in seminars and online discussion forums.

Raise your awareness of cyberspace threats and the implications for law enforcement and national security responses. Study the role of the internet in radicalisation and recruitment, and the role of digital currency in money laundering.

Cyber Conflict, Cyber Espionage and Information Warfare

This subject is previously known as PICX849 Cyber Policing and Intelligence in AustraliaCyberspace has become a major site for different forms of warfare and coercion, ranging from cyber disruption, through information compromise, all the way to covert information operations on a national level. In this unit students learn how robust cyber intelligence can be used to enhance the often-reactive posture of cyber security. This includes understanding the role of cyber intelligence and counterintelligence within the broad, integrated configuration of cyber-security. Students will learn fundamental intelligence collection and analysis principles and apply them to a cyber-security context.

Examine cyber policing from an intelligence-led policing perspective by looking at cybercrime, jurisdictions and extradition, information sharing, collaboration and cyber policing challenges

This subject is previously known as PICX848 Applied Cyber Security.
In today’s world, organisations must be able to protect and defend against threats in cyberspace. This subject provides a solid understanding of the theory and practice used to manage information security on computer systems and networks. Students will be exposed to multiple cyber security technologies, processes and procedures, learn how to analyse threats, vulnerabilities and risks present in these environments, and develop appropriate strategies to mitigate potential cyber security problems. Topics include: an overview of computer and communications security, risk assessment, human factors, identification and authentication, access controls, malicious software, software security and legal and ethical issues. Students will have the opportunity to use tools and software commonly used to attack/protect networks  in order to develop workplace skills. .

Gain an overview of communications security, risk assessment, human factors, authentication, malicious software, software security and legal and ethical issues for a comprehensive understanding of cyber security threats.

The unit was previously known as PICX840 Cyber Crime and Cyber PolicingCyber crime refers to an array of criminal activity including offences against computer data and systems, computer-related offences, content offences, and copyright offences. While early computer hackers were more interested in youthful exploration, modern cybercrime is increasingly about criminal profit and this is reflected in the involvement of transnational organised crime groups. This subject will provide students with detailed understanding about the different types of cybercrime, the perpetrators, and investigation techniques.

Investigate the motivations, methodology and the victims of cyber crime by studying past and current cyber threats and future trends in high tech crime. Follow the involvement of transnational organised crime groups and profit trails. 

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