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Why study cybersecurity at La Trobe?

Cybersecurity costs businesses millions of dollars every year. At La Trobe, you'll gain tangible skills and specialist knowledge to help businesses get their security back.

You'll be able to:

  • Begin building your career while you study with industry-based learning opportunities embedded throughout your degree
  • Learn in state-of-the-art Internet of Things (IoT) and wireless labs
  • Gain cross-discipline knowledge with a double degree or specialisation, so you can gain a specialist role in an area that you're passionate about
  • Get study that fits around you with fully online, on-campus and blended study options

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Bachelor of Cybersecurity

Bachelor of Cybersecurity

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Defend and protect the technological security of businesses and launch your career in a major growth industry. You'll build a highly specialised skillset in cybersecurity fundamentals, ethical hacking, network engineering and more. Possible roles include:

  • ethical hacker
  • cryptographer/cryptanalyst
  • security architect
  • cybersecurity policy adviser

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Bachelor of Cybersecurity/Bachelor of Psychological Science

Bachelor of Cybersecurity/Bachelor of Psychological Science

StudyFlex

Here's your way to thinking like a hacker. You'll combine two rapidly evolving sciences to learn how to combat the constantly evolving threat of cybercrime, uniquely considering the psychological and technical aspects. Possible roles include:

  • ethical hacker
  • psychologist
  • security architect
  • cybersecurity policy adviser

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Bachelor of Cybersecurity/Bachelor of Criminology

Bachelor of Cybersecurity/Bachelor of Criminology

StudyFlex

Behind every cybercrime is a human story. You'll learn what is takes to join the fight against cybercrime with specialist skills and knowledge that help understand the roots of cybercrime and stay ahead of crime trends. Possible roles include:

  • ethical hacker
  • crime analyst
  • security architect
  • intelligence officer

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Bachelor of Cybersecurity/Bachelor of Commerce

Bachelor of Cybersecurity/Bachelor of Commerce

Decades of globalisation and technological innovation and the rise of artificial intelligence tools and cloud computing have made cybersecurity and commerce increasingly intertwined. Learn how to keep businesses safe in an era of global connectivity and build the skills to run a successful enterprise. Possible roles include:

  • ethical hacker
  • security architect
  • business analyst
  • cybersecurity policy adviser.

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Master of Cybersecurity

Master of Cybersecurity

Now and in the years to come, cybersecurity experts are set to be in high demand. Go beyond the technological side of cybercrime and explore the psychology, legal and ethical frameworks and risk management associated with it.

Specialise your knowledge by choosing a specialisation in:

  • computer science
  • business operations
  • artificial intelligence

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Undergraduate open access majors and minors

Undergraduate open access majors and minors

Thinking of studying a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Business or Bachelor of Information Technology? You could major in applied cybersecurity.

La Trobe’s open access majors and minors mean you could customise your degree with cross-disciplinary studies, work-integrated learning and study overseas.

Whatever you’re studying, if there’s enough spare credit points in your course structure and room in your timetable, you could choose an open access major or minor from your course’s discipline or a completely different discipline.

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Hear from our students

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We have a cybersecurity lab with tools you'd usually pay thousands of dollars to access. We're taught by industry people as well as academics – one of my professors is currently at Microsoft – and you hear about opportunities you wouldn't otherwise. There are lots of opportunities because there's a huge demand for people with these kinds of skills.

Maha Afaneh
Master of Cybersecurity (Computer Science)
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I'm now so confident with my IT skills, programming and web development. Teachers respond quickly to help in any way they can. I ended up using my hour-long consultation time and received really good feedback on my assessments.

Daim Zaidi
Bachelor of Information Technology

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