Cyber security is one of the fastest growing fields in the information technology industry and with our cyber security course, you’ll maximise your career opportunities.
Gain the skills and knowledge needed for a career as a cyber security paraprofessional.
During this cyber security course, you will develop the comprehensive technical skills and knowledge to:
As a cyber security paraprofessional, you’ll work closely with the security team to detect and determine breaches in a company's network and security systems. You will be part of a team of security practitioners who will develop, monitor and maintain cyber security policies, security procedures and operations for medium to large organisations.
A panel of Australian cyber security industry leaders developed this course, including cyber security specialists in the security, banking, information technology and telecommunications industries.
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Mon, 02 Oct 2023 03:00:18 GMT
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February
Full time: 1 year
Part time: flexible (the time taken to complete this course will vary depending on the number of units you are enrolled in and your input)
Evening: selected units are offered in the evening each semester
For information regarding dates such as enrolment, orientation and study breaks please visit the Academic Calendars page.
This Advanced Diploma in Cyber Security qualification provides the skills and knowledge for an individual to integrate into cyber security teams in large and small organisations.
Possible job titles relevant to this qualification include:
Study scholarships are available if you already hold higher qualifications.
You must:
PRE-TRAINING REVIEW - to assist prospective students to determine whether a course is suitable and appropriate for the individual needs, Box Hill Institute will assess all students’ language, literacy and numeracy and digital literacy by asking you to undertake a self-assessment review prior to the enrolment. A course advisor will discuss the outcomes of the review and make recommendations about whether the course is suitable for you, and identify additional support where required.
Successful completion will enable you to apply for entry to our Bachelor of Information Technology or degrees at other higher education providers.
International students: You may wish to apply or package this course with the Bachelor of Information Technology at Box Hill Institute.
This course is government accredited and has national recognition
The qualification is aligned with the Australian Qualification Framework (AQF) level 6
This training is provided with funds made available by the Commonwealth and Victorian Governments.
Government Subsidised Standard | Full Fee | |
Tuition Fee | $11,948 | $18,618 |
Service & Amenity Fee | $260 | $260 |
Material Fee | $395 | $395 |
Retain Course Items | $0 | $0 |
Total Course Estimate | $12,603 | $19,273 |
Payable Estimate (at commencement) | $12,603 | $19,273 |
Service & Amenity Fee may very depending on course commencement and enrolment duration. Retain Course Items are purchased once by the student prior to commencing. Those items then become the property of the student. Fees listed are at 2023 rates and may increase annually over the duration of delivery. The student tuition fees listed are subject to change given individual circumstances at enrolment. For more information please contact our Course Advisors on 1300 BOX HILL.
To be awarded the Advanced Diploma of Cyber Security, participants must complete a total of:
A minimum of 2 units must be selected from each of the 4 elective streams (General, Intrusion Analyst, Penetration Testing and Security Engineering streams). The remaining 3 units may be selected from the 4 elective streams or from any endorsed training package or accredited course at diploma level or above where they are consistent with the vocational outcomes of the course.
Units selected from other training packages or accredited courses must not duplicate units selected from the core or elective streams.
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to lead teams in the workplace and to actively engage with the management of the organisation. It applies to individuals working at a managerial level who facilitate work teams and build a positive culture within their work teams. At this level, work will normally be carried out using complex and diverse methods and procedures requiring the exercise of considerable discretion and judgement, using a range of problem solving and decision making strategies.
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to develop and
implement virtualisation technologies, with the goal of providing a more
sustainable information and communications technology (ICT) environment.
It applies to individuals working as senior networking staff
responsible for increasing the sustainability of an organisation, by using
virtualisation technologies.
This unit provides the knowledge and skills for a
practitioner to communicate the effects of cyber security incidents to
appropriate personnel in the organisation. This involves understanding
communication styles, setting up and contributing to the team that deals with
cyber security incidents for the organisation. It also includes gathering and
sorting the appropriate information and presenting it using the appropriate
communication style for different groups and personnel in the organisation.
This unit provides the knowledge and skills to recognise and utilise key security standards, organisations and bodies that offer resources and support to an organisation addressing cyber security risk. Resources are reviewed for potential implementation within the organisation.
The unit provides the knowledge and skills to examine concepts and operation of an executable (exe) file and an assembler instruction set, principles of the software development process and software vulnerabilities. The unit also develops skills in writing and reading scripts, utilising software troubleshooting techniques and finally, examining the principles of writing secure code.
This unit provides the knowledge and skills to apply strategies to deal with issues associated with fraudulent identity and to deploy best practices for identity and access management for an organisation.
This unit provides the knowledge and skills to plan and implement a cyber security project that either simulates a real cyber security environment or is an actual workplace project. Learners are required to actively participate and contribute to the project team. They are required to receive tasks, communicate outcomes, design solutions, solve project problems and meet required deadlines to ensure effective and timely delivery of the project. The project may include using a Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) sandbox or equivalent laboratory environment. This environment allows the learner to demonstrate configuring and testing of firewalls, implementing Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and evaluating and identifying any traffic anomalies. The use of Red and Blue teaming exercises to identify security breaches and apply mitigation strategies to minimise further risk should be included as part of the project
Prerequisites: Prerequisite VU22240 - Communicate cyber security incidents within the organisation VU22243 - Develop software skills for the cyber security practitioner VU22244 - Implement best practice for identity management
This unit provides the knowledge and skills to enable a cyber security paraprofessional as part of a team, to identify relevant cyber standards and laws pertaining to the organisation, evaluate current working practices in light of these standards and laws and to plan and implement any required work practice changes.
This unit provides the knowledge and skills to demonstrate the function and operation of hardware and software tools used to detect cyber incidents. The unit includes the selection and use of tools to analyse logged data, detection of malicious data streams as well as analysis of the results and evaluation of the selected tools in their effectiveness in detecting data patterns.
This unit provides the knowledge and skills required to use a series of tools to test the vulnerabilities of the security infrastructure for an organisation. The unit includes the compiling of information on the existing security infrastructure design, evaluating and selecting testing tools and preforming vulnerability scanning and penetration testing. It also includes developing a report which assesses the weaknesses and includes mitigation strategies that can be implemented to ‘harden’ the organisation’s cyber security infrastructure.
This unit provides the knowledge and skills to expand the testing capability for web vulnerabilities. The unit includes skills in using advance features of current toolsets in order identify weaknesses in the security of an organisation’s website. It also includes the development of a penetration (PEN) test report which will identify the root cause of the issues and includes mitigation strategies for the identified web site weaknesses. This unit utilises the current security framework Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) security methodology and open source tools provide a sound foundation to develop these skills.
This unit provides the knowledge and skills to examine the function and operation of IoT devices and to identify what threats and vulnerabilities exit when using them. The unit also includes strategies to minimise the threats.
This unit seeks to build on previous skills in configuring security devices by providing knowledge and skills to configure and modify where required an organisation’s existing security devices. After implementation the devices will be monitored and assessed for their effectiveness. New security devices and technologies will be researched, evaluated and implemented in order to improve the security performance of the organisation.
This unit provides the knowledge and skills required to design, implement and monitor a fundamental virtualised cyber security infrastructure for an organisation. The unit includes designing an infrastructure to suit key specifications, the utilisation of testing procedures in the development stage, implementation process, monitoring functionality following implementation and continuous improvement processes.
This unit provides skills and knowledge required to perform a risk assessment for the organisation; this assessment is most likely performed as part of a team. The unit covers; assessing current assets, identify current threats and vulnerabilities, identify a risk process and performing the assessment.
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