Design of Computer Networking Courses with Major in Cyber Security SAVITRI BEVINAKOPPA, AMMAR ALAZAB, TONY JAN School of Information Technology and Engineering Melbourne Institute of Technology 288 La Trobe St, Melbourne, VICTORIA AUSTRALIA sbevinakoppa@mit.edu.au, aalazab@mit.edu.au, tjan@mit.edu.au http://www.mit.edu.au Abstract: - Melbourne Institute of Technology (MIT) is leading private provider that is offering course in Information Technology, Engineering and Business area. MIT is the only private provider in Australia to obtain accreditation from Australian government agency: Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), International professional bodies such as Engineers Australia, Australian Computer Society and Accounting bodies. MIT expanded number of course offers along with current courses in Cyber Security area particularly Bachelor of Networking (BNet) and Master of Networking (MNet) courses Major in Cyber Security. These two courses are designed carefully by benchmarking with other higher educational institutes and current trends in industry. Currently students have expressed interest in enrolling in these new courses as they can have two areas of expertise: Computer Networking and Cyber Security. Key-Words: Course Design, Computer Networking, Cyber Security, Bachelor degree, Master degree 1 Introduction Melbourne Institute of Technology (MIT) is offering a Bachelor of Networking (BNet) and Master of Networking (MNet) courses Major in Cyber Security, in addition to the existing general BNet and MNet courses. The purpose of this paper is to outline the concept for introducing Networking courses with Cyber Security Major. Section 2 provides background information on the concept of new course design. Course design based on conceptual level to advanced level for BNet and MNet are explained in section 3. Conclusion is given in section 4. 2 Background The Bachelor of Networking degree with Cyber Security Major is targeted at candidates with a successful completion of Australian Year 12 or equivalent, looking at their tertiary course with a view to build their career as expert Cyber Security professionals. Graduates with a Bachelor of Networking in Cyber Security will have the skills and expertise required to protect critical information stored in an organisation’s computer and network systems. In deciding the course structure, the aim is to leverage BNet’s existing Cyber Security units with the introduction of some new units. The Master of Networking with Cyber Security Major is targeted at graduates of an Australian Bachelor degree or equivalent in and IT or related discipline who wish to build their career as expert Cyber Security professionals. Graduates with a Master of Networking in Cyber Security will have the skills and expertise required to protect critical information stored in an organisation’s computer and networked systems. In deciding the course structure, the aim is to leverage MNet existing Cyber Security units with the introduction of some new units if required. 3.1 Bachelor of Networking Major in Cyber Security Bachelor of Networking Major in Cyber Security course has two components: Computer Networking and Cyber Security. The following sections explain how these two areas are covered in the new course curriculum. 3.1.1 Coverage of networking from fundamentals to advanced theory and practice The topics of networking will be introduced at three sequential levels identified by OSI layers: • Fundamentals of Computer Networks (units BN103, BN106) • Data Link and Network layers (units BN202, BN321) • Application Layer (unit BN206) • Wireless Networks (unit BN303) Savitri Bevinakoppa, Ammar Alazab, Tony Jan International Journal of Education and Learning Systems http://iaras.org/iaras/journals/ijels ISSN: 2367-8933 111 Volume 3, 2018