BSc (Hons) Ethical Hacking
Course Overview
Study Ethical Hacking and graduate as an accomplished, in-demand professional. Abertay is right at the forefront of cybersecurity teaching, producing highly skilled professionals.
Key Program Highlights
- We are also Scotland's Top Modern University for Student Satisfaction (The Complete University Guide 2027 and The Times Good University Guide 2026.) It takes a hacker to catch a hacker.
- This degree is for you if you get excited by the challenge of outsmarting cyber criminals and want to make a real difference by fighting for security and justice online.
- Our Ethical Hacking degree provides you with a deep understanding of how illegal computer attacks are performed and how they can be stopped.
- Ethical Hacking BSc (Hons) - the benefits are clear: NCSC-certified degree - receive a personal certificate from GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre when you graduate.
- One of the leading cybersecurity courses in Europe.
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Course Overview
Study Ethical Hacking and graduate as an accomplished, in-demand professional. Abertay is right at the forefront of cybersecurity teaching, producing highly skilled professionals.
Key Program Highlights
- We are also Scotland's Top Modern University for Student Satisfaction (The Complete University Guide 2027 and The Times Good University Guide 2026.) It takes a hacker to catch a hacker.
- This degree is for you if you get excited by the challenge of outsmarting cyber criminals and want to make a real difference by fighting for security and justice online.
- Our Ethical Hacking degree provides you with a deep understanding of how illegal computer attacks are performed and how they can be stopped.
- Ethical Hacking BSc (Hons) - the benefits are clear: NCSC-certified degree - receive a personal certificate from GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre when you graduate.
- One of the leading cybersecurity courses in Europe.
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Modules
- Computer Networking 1
- Fundamentals of Development and Security
- Computer Hardware Architecture and Operating Systems
- Programming with C++
- Software Design
- Abertay 101 - Being Successful at Abertay
- Successful Writing at Abertay
- Digital Skills for University and Beyond
- Dundee and Me
- Research and Enquiry Skills for the Digital Age
- How to Sell Your Idea
- Planning Your Future Career
- Welcome to the CommuniTAY
- Wellbeing Tools and Tricks
- Numbers for Everday Life
- Data Structures and Algorithms 1
- Dynamic Web Development 1
- Ethical Hacking 1
- Data Structures and Algorithms 2
- Digital Forensics 1
- Being Successful at University (For 2nd year entrants)
- Co-create (Negotiated Studies)
- Anti-Racism in Professional Communications
- Mind Your Language: Text Mining and Qualitative Approaches to Language Analysis
- AWS Academy Machine Learning Foundation
- Sustainability 101
- Food for thought
- Optimising your professional written communication
- Mythbusters: Separating Breakthroughs from Fake News
- The Future in Work
- Social Enterprise: What How and Why
- Artificial Intelligence and Society
- My AI: Past Present and Future
- Digital Safety and Cybersecurity
- Numbers for Success
- Creative China: Culture Regulation and Business
- Creativity Matters: Engaging resources for Wellbeing
- Professional Project Planning and Prototyping
- Computer Networking 2
- Ethical Hacking 2
- Software Development for Mobile Devices
- Professional Project Development and Delivery
- Ethical Hacking 3
- Digital Forensics 2
- System Internals and Cybersecurity
- Honours Project Proposal and Execution
- Honours Project Dissertation
- Engineering Resilient Systems 1
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