Emerging Technologies: Emerging Cyber Threats and AI
Lead the next wave of technological innovation with essential insights into cyber threats, AI and their real-world application.
Duration
6 weeksWeekly study
10 hours
Emerging Technologies: Emerging Cyber Threats and AI
Build strategies for risk and resilience with cybersecurity management.
Cybersecurity threats are escalating. From ransomware to human error, cybercrime can damage organisations across every sector, making strong leadership essential.
On this online microcredential from Deakin University, learn to manage cyber risks through governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) strategies.
Designed for professionals with digital, business, or management experience, you’ll discover how to align security frameworks with business priorities and promote secure practices across your organisation.
You’ll finish the course with the skills to evaluate threats, reduce vulnerabilities, and drive sustainable, secure digital operations–with a digital certificate and 0.5 postgraduate-level credit to support your next career step.
Syllabus
Week 1
Introduction to cyber threats and defensive strategies
Let's get started
Meet your teaching team and other learners, and find key information about this course, including useful tips and links to help you get the most out of your learning.
History of cyber threats
Lessons from the past and insights for the future.
Defensive strategies against cyber threats
Learn about essential defensive strategies against evolving cyber threats, highlighting the importance of traditional methods and the need for adaptive security approaches to mitigate vulnerabilities.
Weekly wrap
Reflect on the key ideas presented this week and find out what's coming up in Week 2.
Week 2
AI and cyber security
Foundations of AI
Explore foundations of AI, as well as emerging trends in AI.
AI in cyber security: A double-edged sword
Explore how AI enhances cyber defence while also empowering more sophisticated cyber attacks.
Offensive AI
Learning about the growing challenges and implications of using AI in both attack and defence.
Weekly wrap
Reflect on the key ideas presented this week and find out what’s coming up in Week 3.
Week 3
Advanced AI techniques in cybersecurity
Let's get started
Find out more about what we’ll learn this week.
Large language models (LLMs)
What are LLMs, how can they strengthen cybersecurity -- and do they introduce new risks?
Federated learning for cybersecurity
Learning about federated learning, how it differs from centralised learning, the role it plays in cyber security, its challenges and future.
Weekly wrap
Reflect on the key ideas presented this week and find out what's coming up in Week 4.
Week 4
Securing the IoT and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) ecosystems with AI technologies
IoT and cyber threats
Learning about the basics of IoT systems and the cyber risks they face.
From smart threats to smart industry
AI’s role in IoT/IIoT security and the threat landscape of AI-driven attacks.
IIoT and AI
Learning about Ai-driven solutions for securing IIoT, AI-based cyberattacks on IIoT, risks and challenges of AI in IIoT, and autonomic AI for IoT/IIoT.
Weekly wrap
Reflect on the key ideas presented this week and find out what’s coming up in Week 5.
Week 5
Cybersecurity in space and aerial systems
Foundations of space communication
An overview of fundamentals of space communication systems, exploring key architectures and the evolution from traditional geostationary satellites to modern LEO constellations and smart satellite networks.
Cybersecurity in space systems
Examining the cybersecurity threat landscape facing space infrastructure, and future directions for securing space-based technologies.
Cybersecurity in UAVs
Explore UAV communication, emerging drone tech, and the cybersecurity challenges shaping their future.
Weekly wrap
Reflect on your learning from this week as we prepare to focus on your assessment task, which we'll be looking at in more detail next week.
Week 6
Assessment, summary, and next steps
Assessment preparation and submission
Learn practical tips and information about how to complete and submit your assessment. Reflect on what you've learnt throughout this course, and how you'll integrate this into your assessment task.
Course wrap
Reflect on what you’ve learnt over the duration of this course, and find out more about how to use your credential before considering the next steps of your learning journey.
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Define cyber threats in the context of contemporary digital platforms and communication networks and discuss threat implications in real-world systems.
- Devise cyber threat detection and prevention solutions through the application of AI principles with ethical considerations in place.
- Justify the choice of AI techniques for cyber threat detection against system and network vulnerabilities.
Who is the course for?
This course will most benefit learners with an ICT background. This includes:
- ICT managers
- Information and organisational professionals
- Database and systems administrators, and
- ICT security specialists.
Who will you learn with?
I'm an Associate Professor, Cyber Security, School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia. My areas of interest are cybersecurity, artificial intelligence
Kiran is currently a Graduate Researcher at Deakin University. Her work focuses on designing mutual authentication protocols to enhance the security of drone swarm networks.
Who developed the course?
Deakin University
Deakin University is one of Australia’s largest universities with more than 61,000 students and over 15,000 online.
Established
1974Location
Melbourne, AustraliaWorld ranking
Top 280Source: QS World University Rankings 2021
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