Master of Business (Managing Cyber Risk)
PostgraduateUSQ-MCR-MAS2025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
Manage the challenges of cyber security in modern businesses
Leverage digital technologies to enhance and protect businesses. Get strategic with governance, risk, and compliance frameworks. You’ll cover key cyber security standards and frameworks, and gain skills to respond to and recover from cyber incidents.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 2 years full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 16
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
Master of Business (Managing Cyber Risk)
About this degree
Upon completion of the Master of Business, students will be able to:
- Influence organisational adaptability by researching and designing solutions to dynamic issues and changing landscapes by applying a synthesis of established theories and complex specialist knowledge in collaborative teams.
- Master complex informational inputs from a variety of sources and stakeholders to ensure that the interests of others (including organisational, cultural/societal, and environmental) and professional responsibilities are considered and addressed.
- Leverage and integrate the availability of digital technologies and automation relevant in the domain of specialist expertise to drive current and future business performance.
- Communicate specialist knowledge and expert judgements to both specialist and non-specialist audiences to build professional credibility and influence.
- Exercise a growth mindset using independent critical and reflective thinking and self-directed learning to operate as an adaptive and ethical professional.
- Cultivate a professional identity and career trajectory by exhibiting the human capabilities, research skills and knowledge demanded by modern organisations.
- Cyber security incidents are often considered an unavoidable consequence of conducting modern business. Be prepared to mitigate the risk organisations face with UniSQ’s Master of Business (Managing Cyber Risk). Learn how to build cyber security management strategies by designing and applying governance, risk and compliance frameworks to cyber security incidents. Understand more about key cyber security standards and frameworks and the process for planning, responding, recovering and reporting incidents, in order to better enable and manage cyber resilience in organisations.
Recommended study pattern
MGT5100 Harnessing Human Capabilities for the Future of Work
MGT5102 Strategy, Innovation and Business Research
FIN5100 Data and Decision Making
MGT6606 The Ready Business Professional
MGT5101 Adaptive Leadership
MKT5001 Service Experience
MGT5103 Talent Strategy
ECO5000 Managerial Economics
CIS6707 Cyber Incident Management and Response
CIS6709 Cyber Governance and Leadership
CIS6712 Information Assurance and Risk Management
CIS6714 Cyber Resilience
4 x ElectivesAward requirements
Completion of 16 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Exit points
Graduate Diploma of Business, Graduate Certificate of Business.
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Indicative first year fee
$16,323
Indicative total fee $32,646
The amounts shown here are indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.
Fees may vary depending on:
- the subjects you choose
- credit from previous work experience
- your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.
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Entry requirements
- Completion of an approved Bachelor degree in the area of business, or equivalent, or equivalent minimum of three years professional work experience (at ANZSCO Skill Level 1-3). Proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
- Exemptions/credit will be assessed based on the UniSQ Credit and Exemption Procedure. Claims for credit for previous study should be submitted prior to or at the time of enrolment. Each claim will be assessed on individual merit in line with UniSQ policy.
Career opportunities
Australian job snapshots
Data sourced from Australian Jobs 2023.
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Police | $93K to $120K | Up 10.8% |
Policy and Planning Managers | Over $120K | Up 53.8% |
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