Working effectively in ICT teams: communication, collaboration tools and professional conduct in a technical workplace.

The networking foundation for security: the OSI and TCP/IP models, addressing and the common protocols, and how traffic actually moves.

How security concepts and procedures are tested and validated, and the methodical mindset behind cyber testing.

Why organisations invest in security: the threats, the risk, the business impact and the case for a security posture.

The capstone: plan and carry out a real cyber security project from end to end.

Prerequisites: VU23213 and VU23215.

Australian cyber law, the Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles, and the ethics that govern security work.

Hardening the devices people actually use: endpoint configuration, controls and defence.

Designing and building the network's security layer: firewalls, segmentation and the infrastructure that protects it.

Prerequisite: VU23213.

Preparing for the breach: building, testing and improving an incident response plan.

Finding the holes in web applications: the common vulnerabilities and how they are exposed.

The security built into Windows, and how to use and administer it.

The offensive side: how exploitation works, tested safely and ethically.

Prerequisite: VU23215.