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Unlock the world of cyber security with our cutting-edge Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems (BITS) course, specializing in cyber security. In this dynamic course, you'll gain a robust understanding of information systems risk and security, empowering you to expertly assess and manage security risks within an organization's digital infrastructure. By leveraging internationally recognized ISO27001 and NIST cyber security frameworks, you'll be equipped to fortify digital landscapes against evolving threats.
Dive deep into the realm of network security implementation as you learn to design and implement secure network architectures, ensuring the utmost data confidentiality and integrity. Our comprehensive curriculum encompasses cyber security law, policies, and ethics, instilling in you the knowledge to ensure organizational practices align seamlessly with legal and ethical standards.
Delve into the world of security threat management, honing your skills to identify and analyse potential security vulnerabilities. Your expertise will enable organizations to proactively address threats, bolstering their digital defense. With hands-on experience in investigating and responding to cyber incidents, including digital forensics techniques and ethical hacking practices, you'll be primed to elevate an organization's incident response capabilities.
Throughout your learning journey, you'll have access to cutting-edge tools such as Oracle VM VirtualBox and Linux-based operating systems like Kali Linux, Python, and GNS3. Join us in shaping a secure digital landscape and become an indispensable guardian of the cyber realm. Embark on your cyber security odyssey with BITS today!
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Experience a future-focused curriculum designed to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving IT industry.
Gain practical expertise through real-world projects and industry internships, preparing you for the workplace.
Learn from experienced professionals who bring real-world insights and cutting-edge knowledge to the classroom.
Develop in-demand skills in cyber security, networking, data analytics, and software development.
Access modern labs and advanced technology, fostering innovation and creative problem-solving.
Join a diverse community of IT enthusiasts, forging valuable connections and gaining global perspectives.
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Course Code: ICA70112
CRICOS Code: 085576A
Duration: 3 years (full time)
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The BITS degree offers units across the wide spectrum of the Information Technology discipline, including the study of hardware, software, networking, security, database, and programming technologies and includes relevant cognitive, technical and communication skills.
Students who successfully complete the requirements with a specialisation as stated above will be awarded the degree “Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems with specialisation in Cyber security”.
A total of 24 credits (144 credit points) will satisfy the requirements for qualification.
The Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems course at VIT offers a well-structured curriculum that combines theoretical knowledge with hands-on learning experiences. Over the course of three years, students will undertake a diverse range of units to build a strong foundation in IT and its applications.
This unit introduces the underlying theories and mechanisms of modern computer systems and networks. It provides the fundamental knowledge of the hardware, software, data and network technologies of computer systems and the skills required for the operation of computer systems and networked environments. You will gain critical knowledge and application of how various components of computer systems and networks work together in various architectures and operating system environments.
You will be prepared over time to adapt your knowledge and understanding to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to computer systems and networking. Resolution of such issues is critical in a changing environment, as is seen in the impact on networking resulting from the rise of mobile device usage.
The unit introduces modern programming concepts and techniques that are required to implement software programs in a variety of application areas. The unit covers the basic theory of creating algorithms and program design in object-oriented programming paradigm. Students will gain practical skills to develop general software programs which form essential building blocks for a variety of application environments such as Web and desktop applications.
This unit will prepare you over time to adapt your knowledge and understanding to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues and changing demands relevant to software development. Fundamentals will be presented in a form that will enable you to keep pace with the speed of programming methodology/language changes that are experienced in this rapidly changing field.
The unit covers the underlying theory and basic concepts of relational data modelling, query languages and database design. You will develop the knowledge and skills necessary for the effective design and implementation of database systems that satisfy the data management requirements of an enterprise. The unit will also address the various issues and techniques of data management, including retrieval, update, integrity, privacy and security aspects associated with data access, manipulation and administration.
This unit will help you develop a sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to database fundamentals. Unification of multiple data sources is central to the ‘big data’ paradigm likely to dominate design over the coming decades. You will be prepared to critically evaluate and understand database issues as they arise in practice over the coming years. This unit provides the foundation for such understanding.
The unit provides a theoretical introduction to the professional and ethical practices in a typical IT workplace of today. In particular, the unit emphasises organisational and professional communication and teamwork, ensuring that the personal information of stakeholders is handled in a confidential and professional manner when dealing with stakeholders in an IT environment. It also covers a range of issues related to health and safety requirements in the IT workplace, maintaining professionalism as well as software copyright requirements and licencing.
You will be prepared to adapt your knowledge and understanding over time to ensure sound understanding of the issues relevant to IT professional practice. As IT becomes more and more central to organisational operations, the need to maintain ethical and professional practice becomes increasingly paramount. This unit ensures a fundamental understanding of the issues and theories that drive Ethics, Data Privacy and Security in professional practice.
The unit covers the fundamental concepts of network architecture and network technologies. It includes internetworking protocols, operational tools, and techniques for network management. The unit provides the in-depth knowledge and skills that are required to implement defined network architecture that factors various types of networks, inter-networking, and network security.
Implementation of appropriate network architectures is now crucial for the full exploitation of IT infrastructure within competitive environments. This unit is designed to ensure you have the fundamental knowledge to adapt and innovate within this context and be prepared for specialised units of the course. Through undertaking this unit, you will broaden your knowledge and understanding of the issues relevant to network architecture.
This unit introduces principles of business communication, creation of business documents and business presentation skills. The course also provides a detailed coverage on team communication and use of technology to facilitate communication process. In particular, the unit explores inter and intra organisational communication as well as professional communication. This unit imparts written, oral, and collaborative skills necessary for subsequent units, internships and professional positions.
You will be prepared to demonstrate writing of effective business communication artefacts such as letters, memos, proposals, formal and informal reports, work plans, and progress reports. You will be able to use the knowledge and skills imparted in this unit to your IT work situations resulting in better-quality software documentation/operation manuals, improved interpersonal communications with peers and customers.
This unit focuses on providing you with basics of software systems modelling and design principles and methodologies to formalise all aspects of systems development processes. It will develop your ability to apply contemporary tools and techniques that are effectively used at various stages of software systems development lifecycle.
You will be prepared to adapt your knowledge and understanding over time to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to systems analysis and design. Being a second-year level unit, increased emphasis is placed on critical analysis and interpretation skills. In the context of systems analysis and design, this includes consideration of the pros and cons of various techniques, considered through contemporary research in published articles.
The unit presents an integrated approach covering systems and processes for managing IT projects within various industry sectors. It covers the IT project management life cycle, problem definition, project planning, project scheduling and estimation, project monitoring and controlling including earned value management techniques, risk management, project issues and project closing. You will also be able to apply conceptual methodologies using techniques such as networking, resource planning and control, team coordination, time and budget estimation using estimation models, project monitoring via earned value management tools including a range of management strategies.
You will be prepared over time to adapt your knowledge and understanding to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to IT project management. Due reference will be made to the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) to facilitate your fundamental understanding of project management principles and theory.
The unit teaches the use of discrete structures, their properties, and applications in the field of information technologies. The unit also exposes you to the basic procedures and styles of mathematical proofs related to computational machines. The unit teaches a range of computational mathematics topics such as logic, number system, set theory, methods of proof, predicate calculus, induction, trees, and graph theory.
You learn techniques to think and analyse computational requirements “logically”, and to apply these techniques in solving problems. You will be able to reason “mathematically” about data types and structures (such as numbers, sets, graphs, and trees) used in algorithms and to synthesize elementary proofs, especially proofs by induction.
The unit is designed to give final year students the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills which they have gained throughout the course. This unit is the first of two project units in the course, and it focuses more on analysis and design, while the second unit focuses on implementation aspects. The project provides a real-world IT problem, and each member of the project team will play a role substantially related to your chosen specialisation in the course. You will be required to design a technology solution for the identified problem. You will showcase your abilities in project management and demonstrate the use of structured methodology in IT projects.
You will work in groups to produce individual quality outputs including a comprehensive report, presentation and in some cases a solution prototype. Your team will extend the project in ITSU3009 Project 2 with detailed technical implementation or investigation. In addition to technical skills, you will also gain other important skills including project management, professional practice, teamwork, and effective communication.
The unit is designed to give final-year students the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills which they have learned throughout the course. This unit is the second of two project units in the course where the first unit focuses more on analysis and design while the second unit focuses on implementation aspects. The project provides a real-world IT problem, and each member of the project team will play a role substantially related to your chosen specialisation in the course. You will form a group to work together and provide a feasible solution to the client. Project teams are responsible for their own project management with guidance from the project supervisor.
You will gain skills of technical design and implementation, innovative use of new technologies in IT, writing technical documentation, teamwork, time management, professional ethics, and effective communication to produce quality outputs meeting the client requirements.
The unit is designed for undergraduate level students to enhance their scholarship through research-based study on a topic in information technology. The unit develops the core essentials of understanding the research process, research methodologies and research methods directed towards technical research, covering key elements such as the literature survey, defining research question, experimental design, etc.
You will gain a fundamental experience in doing some preliminary research work and will be able to apply the best practices introduced in the unit to further your research in IT area.
The unit is designed to give final year students the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills which they have gained throughout the course. This unit is the first of two project units in the course, and it focuses more on analysis and design, while the second unit focuses on implementation aspects. The project provides a real-world IT problem, and each member of the project team will play a role substantially related to your chosen specialisation in the course. You will be required to work in an industry workplace and design a technology solution for the client. You will showcase your abilities in project management and demonstrate the use of structured methodology in IT projects.
You will work in groups to produce individual quality outputs including a comprehensive report, presentation and in some cases a solution prototype. Your team will extend the project in ITSU3019 Professional Project 2 with detailed technical implementation or investigation. In addition to technical skills, you will also gain other important skills including project management, professional practice, teamwork, and effective communication.
The unit is designed to give final-year students the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills which they have learned throughout the course. This unit is the second of two project units in the course where the first unit focuses more on analysis and design while the second unit focuses on implementation aspects. The project provides a real-world IT problem, and each member of the project team will play a role substantially related to your chosen specialisation in the course. You will from a group to work together in an industry workplace and provide a feasible solution to the client. Project teams are responsible for their own project management with guidance from the project supervisor.
This unit introduces contemporary Information Systems used in different industries and their associated risks and management. As an introductory unit within the information security domain, the unit will expose you to a comprehensive set of knowledge covering the threats, vulnerabilities, risks and security breaches related to Information Systems in real-world scenarios. In addition, the importance of understanding the requirements of deploying cyber security mitigation measures and cost benefits will also be introduced.
You will be able to apply the knowledge and skills introduced in the unit to identify security management standards and frameworks for developing secure and robust IT Systems. Over time, you will be able to specify countermeasures in case-based scenarios keeping in view the costs, complexities and user impact.
This unit offers you an opportunity to obtain a comprehensive understanding of cyber security related laws, policies, and implementation of cyber security frameworks for a variety of scenarios in global and local contexts. In this unit, you critically evaluate the requirements for implementing cyber security laws, policies and maintaining up-to-date countermeasures. The unit also presents case examples involving cyber related security incidents and how these violations were handled and risks mitigated through enforcement mechanisms.
Throughout this unit, you will be equipped to contextualise the legal provisions in the real world and ensure that IT implementations involving cyber technologies comply with relevant laws. Over time you will learn to identify appropriate policies, standards, practices, procedures, and guidelines that are required to be implemented in different countries.
This unit provides coverage of threat management methods including Isolation techniques of Quarantine and Sandboxing, Deep file analysis, Allowing or blocking files, restoration, backup, expert review, patch and end point management. The unit covers enterprise level antivirus, Network Access Controller and Endpoint Configuration Manager software.
You will over time be able to critically analyse and implement a threat management solution. As a level two unit, you will be exposed to established technologies that can be adopted for Security Threat Management.
The unit provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept, theory, principles, and practice of Digital Forensics. The field of Digital Forensics has moved beyond the mere investigation of computer crime to encompass a wide variety of criminal activities. In this context, the unit covers techniques such as data acquisition and validation, forensic methodologies, file systems examination, graphics file investigation, network and email investigation, legal issues, professionalism, and ethics to address cybercrimes.
At the completion of this unit, you will be capable of applying appropriate techniques to situations involving criminal or corporate investigation or breaches in IT security. You will also develop skills in communication, investigation, and problem resolution in practical contexts.
This unit covers the knowledge required to evaluate the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of computer systems in a lawful manner whilst using the same knowledge and tools that would be used by malicious hackers to attack similar systems. The unit also covers penetration testing in detail, including the five phases: Reconnaissance, Scanning, Gaining Access, Maintaining Access, and Covering Tracks.
You will assess applied security measures in the target systems and be able to improve the security implementation and design other appropriate countermeasures. You are also expected to produce reports and presentations to system users, both technical and non-technical regarding identified vulnerabilities and weaknesses found during penetration testing.
This unit covers the advanced theory and practice of systems and network security. It exposes you to a range of cryptography problems in network infrastructure. Cryptography implementation of networks in enterprise systems including NAC, VPN, public keys and keys management are discussed.
You will develop advanced security skills including the range of cryptographic techniques and their implementations. The unit looks at various cryptography management issues, including the use and abuse of encryption, distributed systems authentication and integrity management. Being a final year level unit, it is designed to ensure you undertake an independent evaluation of unit principles in the context of the latest implementation of cryptographic algorithms.
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Cyber Security Analysts are indispensable in the protection of organisations from cyber threats and potential data breaches. Their expertise in identifying system vulnerabilities and developing comprehensive incident response plans is critical in safeguarding sensitive information. Through proactive monitoring of network systems and conducting detailed security assessments, they ensure the resilience and continuity of business operations, thus playing a crucial role in maintaining the integrity of organisational information and data.
Cyber Security Officers are tasked with the strategic development and implementation of cyber security measures within organisations. They lead initiatives such as Security Awareness Training and the deployment of multi-factor authentication systems to enhance security of networks and portable devices. Their diligent incident investigations utilise information from SIEM, Firewalls, and Anti-Malware systems which is pivotal in maintaining a secure and resilient digital infrastructure.
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The Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems (BITS) course is accredited by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), the regulator of higher education and the accrediting authority for higher education courses in Australia. You may look up the National Register for this course. VIT is registered by TEQSA to offer and confer Australian higher education award for the completion of an accredited Australian course of study – BITS.
VIT’s Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems (BITS) is an undergraduate course at Australian Qualification Framework (AQF) Level 7.
The qualification conferred upon completion is recognised by the Australian Government and will provide you with a competitive edge in the job market, both in Australia and overseas.
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