The doctorate (D.Sc.) program in cyber security prepares the most highly qualified cyber security professionals to lead the increasingly complex cyber challenges of the digital world in which we live and to protect the infrastructures that are critical to the nation’s digital society and economy. Graduates will educate and lead the next generation of cyber security professionals to solve the most complex cyber security problems of tomorrow.

To build national and regional capacity through theoretical and practical cyber security science leading to the advancement in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), minimising cybercrime and developing high level manpower that will create job and wealth through the application of cyber security solution.

Cyber security is an evolving field; it has gone beyond network security. Our doctoral program recognizes the evolving field and has an emphasis on the intersection of technology, management, ethics, leadership, policy, teaching, and data science aspects of cyber security.

Our focus is on working practitioners in the field, extending the knowledge base of the cyber security profession in an environment of scholarly inquiry based on real-world situations, reflecting the changing nature of the maturing cybersecurity field. The students will perform extensive applied research in the technology, societal, ethical, and policy domains within cybersecurity. The research will consider the evolution of threats and their mitigation in the 21st century and prepare graduates to be leaders and educators while allowing individuals to foster their unique backgrounds, strengths, and interests in their chosen careers.