You can complete one short course as a standalone credential or stack multiple to build towards a full postgraduate degree at Deakin. Want to know more?
Course overview
This short course provides fundamental principles and concepts for cyber threat modelling and analysis. Additionally, you will be trained on AI-based threat detection techniques and their applicability for real-life threat detection and prevention.
After completion of the course, you will be able to apply these skills immediately in your workplace:
- Architect, interpret and analyse cyber threats.
- Understand threat intelligence, modelling and artificial intelligence (AI) for cyber threat detection.
- Deploy and test software-based cyber threat detection techniques.
Entry requirements
To be successful we recommend you are proficient in English and have a minimum of an undergraduate degree in a related field or significant work experience.
Industry organisation and expert
This industry-led stackable short course is co-designed with industry experts. Together, we’ve designed a course where you’ll gain skills that you can apply immediately in your workplace.
Dr Zubair Baig is Associate Professor, Cyber Security at Deakin University’s School of Information Technology and is a prolific researcher in the cybersecurity domain. He leads the researcher engagement and impact portfolio within the Deakin Strategic Centre for Cyber Resilience and Trust (Deakin CYBER).
Earn a digital credential
We’ve teamed up with Credly to award you a digital credential when you complete this industry-recognised stackable short course, plus you can bank the credit towards a Deakin postgraduate degree. You can also share your digital credential on social and professional platforms.
Course structure
How you'll learn
Learn directly with industry experts in small groups to build your own expertise and incorporate relevant industry knowledge and knowledge in your context. Your learning is supported in a dedicated course site for online discussion and activities with an educator and fellow learners.
What you'll learn
During the short course you’ll:
- define cyber threats in the context of contemporary digital platforms and communication networks and discuss threat implications in real-world systems
- comprehend and apply AI principles for cyber threat detection and prevention with ethical considerations in place
- reason and report on the choice of AI techniques for cyber threat detection against system and network vulnerabilities as identified through rigorous technical analysis.
How you’re assessed
Your assessment requires you to work through a series of tasks tailored to your learning goals, allowing you to build a comprehensive portfolio of evidence. You will be required to respond to feedback or questions posed by the teaching team, which may include audio or video recordings or participating in online meeting to demonstrate your understanding of task and their associated concepts. This approach allows you to take your learning further and apply it in real-world scenarios.
Reshaping university education
An innovative learning structure delivered by a leading university. With more than 40 years’ experience in distance and online education, we’re proud to be adding this unique study format to our courses, providing you with more choice to further your career and fulfil your lifelong learning needs.
Ready to enrol?
We're offering a limited number of subsidised places – study four emerging technology short courses for only $800, a saving of $3,600.
Did you know you can apply credit to a postgraduate degree?
Unsure what degree you want to study? Study two short courses that interest you and apply both as credit towards a wide range of postgraduate degrees at Deakin – from business administration to nursing, sustainability to communication and more.*
*Subject to successful completion of the short courses and meeting Deakin’s award course admission and selection requirements, including English language proficiency requirements.
Limits on elective space in a destination degree are outlined in specific degrees’ course rules within the Deakin University Handbook. Typically, a maximum of four stackable short courses can be used as credit (2 credit points) towards a masters; and two stackable short courses can be used as credit (1 credit point) towards graduate certificates and diplomas.
