The Next Step – Careers Module develops the learner professionally and personally and equips them with the skills and knowledge to enable them to plan for and achieve their lifelong career goals. The module is aligned to ATU's Employability Statement and Framework which highlights the Institutes commitment to working with employers, ensuring that graduates are prepared for a constantly changing world of work. The Next Step combines a digital learning suite of resources and traditional live discussions that are informed by enterprise. A suite of online workshops facilitate and guide students actions and reflections, as they develop and fine tune a career portfolio. Learners will gain knowledge and skills in relation to the recruitment and selection process, and gain skills relevant to commencing in the workplace.

The online careers module provides students with a programme of career, personal and professional development that is grounded in a theoretical model, CareerEDGE (Darce, Pool, and Sewell 2007). The model of employability has become embedded in the Careers module and forms the architecture around which students' personal, career and professional development is based and delivered.

This module can be delivered as a blended or online module.

1. Apply active self reflection and research skills to create a sustainable career development plan.
2. Construct a comprehensive Career Development e-Portfolio.
3. Present and articulate professional skills and experience in an employment interview situation.
4. Identify, research and reflect on transversal employment skills.

This module will allow students to ‘harden’ an organisation’s network infrastructure. It involves configuring network infrastructure to monitor and filter network traffic (ingress and egress) and raise alerts if outside established baselines. It examines protocols and services used to secure LAN/WAN (local area network/wide area network) access. Students will actively compromise networks and implement solutions to negate these compromises. The module also examines the methods used by malware to probe, compromise and propagate network infrastructure and the protocols and applications that can be used to mitigate against such attacks.

1. Analyse and identify modern security threats and develop security policies and Access Control Liststo prevent such attacks.

2. Configure, test and deploy Intrusion Detection Systemand Intrusion Prevention Systembased Network Security solutions.

3. Configure, test and troubleshoot various network security configurations such as Virtual Private Networks, Secure Sockets Layer, AAA andFirewalls.

4. Security harden devices to prevent threats or attacks to networked systems.

5. Identify security protocols required for security solutions in both Local and Wide Area Network environments.

6. Analyze and deploy cryptographic algorithms to provide security solutions.

This module introduces the learner to modern operating systems concepts and technologies. Students will learn about the Linux and Windows operating systems. They will examine the tools and services that can be used to monitor network traffic and detect malicious activity. Using forensic analysis techniques students will learn to test the robustness of an organisation's computing infrastructure and to take the necessary steps to protect it from attack.

1. Install and configure the Linux/Windows Operating Systems

2. Identify, assess and mitigate operating system threats

3. Utilise the UNIX and Powershell command sets to create shell scripts

4. Utilise forensic tools to monitor and analyse the operating system for malicious activity

5. Define operating system and security policies around reducing the threat surface

This module aims to introduce the learner to modern computer networking concepts and technologies. The learner should understand current IP addressing schemes and be familiar with designing, installing and troubleshooting local area networks (LAN) and wide area networks (WAN).

1. Understand and implement IPv4, IPv6, variable length subnet mask(VLSM) and subnetting.

2. Differentiate between Static and Dynamic routing protocols and concepts.

3. Configure and maintain networks using LAN and WAN devices.

4. Troubleshoot LAN and WAN communication problems.

5. Understand and implement routing protocol and concepts.

6. Demonstrate ability to plan and design congestion free networks.