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Any company that gathers or stores data needs the help of cyber security professionals. Their expertise can prevent that information from falling into the wrong hands.

It’s now commonly known that many businesses across the world utilise vast amounts of data to enhance their offerings and streamline business processes.

Due to this, it’s equally unsurprising that more employees want to have a greater understanding of how to work with large data sets – including how they can utilise these to benefit their organisation.

Sara Hadleigh-Dunn is the Course Leader for Portsmouth Online's MSc in Risk, Crisis and Resilience Management. We sat down with her to discuss her varied research interests, the biggest challenges for risk managers right now, and her advice for those thinking about getting into the field.

Daniel Sibthorpe is a graduate of the University of Portsmouth’s on-campus MSc in Cybercrime and Counter Fraud and Corruption. He works in the National Forensic Services team at Crowe UK, an accountancy and risk advisory firm.

In this guest post, Dr Vasileios Karagiannopoulos, online MSc Cybercrime Module Leader, and Dr Annie Kirby, Research Associate at the University of Portsmouth's Cybercrime Awareness Clinic discuss how cyberawareness and the study of cybercrime can play an important role in preventing online radicalisation of young people. 

As an aspiring student, you’ll want to ensure that your application is the best it can be. However, we understand that many applicants are also managing various other commitments in their lives, which is why we strive to offer them the time and support they need.

Applying for your course of choice is an exciting process. After all, it marks the start of your decision to commit to furthering your education and learning more about a subject that you care about. 

Your personal statement forms a key part of the application process. It provides the best opportunity for you to showcase yourself as a candidate and highlight why you’d be an excellent fit for the course. 

The University of Portsmouth’s MSc Cybercrime course leader Dr Lisa Sugiura is one of the experts to have contributed to Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women – a book which examines different forms of extreme misogyny and their far-reaching impact.

The University of Portsmouth’s Cybercrime Awareness Clinic – which has provided cybercrime awareness advice to individuals, community groups, schools, colleges and other organisations since 2017 – has been awarded The Cyber Awareness Award at the National Cyber Awards 2020.

The ever-evolving nature of cybercrimes, both in the ways they’re committed and their objectives, can make it hard for the average person to know how to protect themselves or react to such threats.