Q1133 · NCQF Level 7
BSc Enterprise Security Architecture
A first degree in the design and governance of security architecture for organisations — blueprints for systems that must remain standing under pressure.
- Duration
- 4 years
- Credits
- 480
- Level
- NCQF 7
- Mode
- Full-time, Gaborone
Purpose
To form a graduate who can design, develop, and govern enterprise security architecture: a person who can read an organisation's risk, specify a defensible infrastructure, and explain the work to those who must live with the result.
Taught in the School of Cyber Security.
Assessment
Formative assessment 50 percent; summative assessment 50 percent. Internal and external moderation by registered assessors.
Instruction is by lecture and by practical class. Written work is set and returned with comment.
Fields of study
These are the subjects of the degree as registered. They are not a weekly timetable, and this draft does not invent a campus calendar around them.
- Computer networks and internet architecture
- Programming for cybersecurity
- Discrete mathematics and data handling
- Operating systems
- Secure software development
- Applied cryptography and public-key infrastructure
- Network security and security monitoring
- Identity and access management
- Risk management and governance
- Digital forensics and incident handling
- Enterprise security architecture
- Cloud infrastructure
- Cyber threat intelligence
- Professional communication and ethics
Later years
- Security architecture in later years, including cloud and identity systems
- Elective study in areas such as mobile and IoT, operational technology, or zero-trust design — as offered
- Capstone work examined by the College