Postgraduate Cybersecurity Education for Non-Specialist Professionals

This paper describes the authors' experience in teaching a cybersecurity module as part of general MSc courses, rather than a specialist MSc in Cybersecurity. There are three variants of this course which have been fully delivered: a traditional MSc generalist course, fulltime and face-to-face, largely aimed at people without much formal Computer Science training; an MSc-level degree apprenticeship for those sponsored by their employers; a purely on-line part-time MSc generalist course in Computer Science. In addition a version for second-year undergraduates is being delivered for the first time, overlapping with the writing of the paper. There are numerous comments and curriculum suggestions for cybersecurity, and the authors' had to choose what was relevant, what would appeal to the students, and what would leverage the authors' strengths.