Associate Lecturer - CM2025 Cyber Security (HE1)

Job Description

The lecturer will be responsible to bridge the gap between theoretical computer science and applied digital security. The lecturer will lead a module designed to equip students with both the rigorous technical skills (cryptography, network security, blockchain) and the critical, real-world evaluation skills needed to solve modern security challenges.

Teaching Objectives:

1. Apply knowledge of engineering and computational principles to identify and classify various cyber threats based on severity and impact.
2. Analyze network security challenges using principles of mathematics and engineering to select and apply appropriate security measures such as configuring firewalls and setting up Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs).
3. Understand mathematical and computational techniques to implement basic cryptographic algorithms ensuring data integrity and confidentiality.
4. Design blockchain solutions for enhancing cybersecurity in areas like secure transactions, considering societal, user and business needs as well as ethical and inclusivity principles.
5. Evaluate the environmental, societal and ethical impact of current cybersecurity practices, and propose improvements considering the principles of EDI.
6. Design a cybersecurity solution for a real-world problem, test its effectiveness, ensure it aligns with EDI principles and communicate the findings effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.