Master of Science in Cybersecurity

Award Requirements

Students are required to complete 31 credits for MSc in Cybersecurity, typically over 1 year (full-time) or 2 years (part-time). All subjects carry 3 credits, except for the Dissertation (9 credits) and Project (6 credits). Full-time students generally enroll in five subjects per semester, while part-time students take two to three subjects.

Awards	MScCYS
With Dissertation	4 Core + 3 Disciplinary-specific Electives + 1 Dissertation + 1 AIE Subject
With Project	4 Core + 3 Disciplinary-specific Electives + 1 Elective + 1 Project + 1 AIE Subject
Without Dissertation/ Project	4 Core + 3 Disciplinary-specific Electives + 3 Electives + 1 AIE Subject
Credits requirements	31

List of Subjects

Below is the table summarising the core and elective subjects. All subjects are three-credit based, unless otherwise stated. Subjects such as Dissertation and Project have different assessment requirements and require supervision arrangement. More details can be obtained from the departmental intranet, i.e. http://intranet.comp.polyu.edu.hk.

Core Subjects (12 credits required)
1	COMP5576 Modern Cryptography
2	COMP5577 AI Security ***
3	COMP5578 Cybersecurity Risk Management
4	EEE541 Privacy Technologies and Management
Disciplinary-specific Electives (9 credits required)
5	COMP5355 Cyber and Internet Security
6	COMP5579 IoT Security: Principles, Protocols, and Practice
7	COMP5580 Mobile and Wireless Security
8	EEE542 Digital Forensics
9	EEE543 Cybersecurity Testing and Intrusion Prevention
Elective Subjects (9 credits required)
10	COMP5112 Data Structures and Database Systems
11	COMP5113 AIBD Programming
12	COMP5140 Metaverse Fundamentals
13	COMP5241 Software Engineering and Development
14	COMP5311 Internet Infrastructure and Protocols
15	COMP5327 Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing
16	COMP5521 Distributed Ledger Technology, Cryptocurrency and E-Payment ***
17	COMP5523 Computer Vision and Image Processing
18	COMP5554 Advanced Artificial Intelligence
19	COMP5563 Applied Cryptography for Financial Applications
20	COMP5565 Decentralized Apps Fundamentals and Development
21	COMP5566 Blockchain and Smart Contract Security ***
22	COMP5569 Fintech Regulation and Compliance
23	DSAI5101 Statistical Data Mining ***
24	DSAI5201 Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Computing in Practice
25	EEE513 Introduction to Quantum Computing
26	EEE531 Spoken Language Processing
27	EIE522 Pattern Recognition: Theory & Applications
28	EIE546 Video Technology
29	EIE553 Security in Data Communication
30	EIE557 Computational Intelligence and its Applications
31	EIE558 Speech Processing and Recognition
32	EIE568 IoT - Tools and Applications
33	EIE569 Sensor Networks
34	EIE573 Mobile Edge Computing
35	COMP5933 Project (6 credits) ***
36	COMP5940 Dissertation (9 credits) ***
37	DSAI5901 Dissertation (9 credits) ***
38	EIE590 MSc Dissertation (9 credits) ***

AIE Subject (1 credit required)
38	DSAI5T09 Academic Integrity and Ethics in Computer and Mathematical Sciences (1 credit)

All subjects are offered at the discretion of subject offering departments, depending on students’ demand and resources available.

Please also visit http://www.polyu.edu.hk/study for other details of the programme and admission.

*** Please refer to the Subject Description Forms for details on the Pre-requisite/ Exclusion requirement(s).

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