Digital Trust and Security Micro-credentials
Specialised online courses delivering practical, industry-aligned skills with real-world impact.
Empowering digital trust
Our postgraduate-level online micro-credentials in Digital Trust and Security equip you with the skills to recognise risks, mitigate threats, and embed safe digital practices.
Whether protecting your workplace, your team, or yourself, these courses build the confidence to meet today’s challenges.
You can complete all four micro-credentials to gain a comprehensive understanding of digital trust and security or focus on the specific areas most relevant to your professional development.
Shaped by input from an Industry Advisory Board representing leading businesses, charities, and government organisations, the content reflects real-world needs and best practice.
Digital Trust and Security Micro-credentials
These courses explore the risks of our hyper-connected world, examining the threats, actors, and methods shaping cybersecurity today. Through case studies, we’ll analyse how cyberattacks unfold, the strategies to prevent them, and the broader implications for privacy, surveillance, and ethics.
Korry Robert
Course Director
Micro-credentials at a glance
Micro-credentials at a glance
Our postgraduate-level online micro-credentials offer a flexible, self-paced format to fit your schedule. With 50 hours of learning delivered across 10 weeks, each course features assessments based on real-world challenges, ensuring your skills are practical and industry ready. Upon completion, you'll earn a certificate detailing your achievement, validated by industry standards and recognised by employers.
This suite of online micro‑credential courses offers focused learning designed to build your knowledge and skills in the critical area of digital trust and security, supporting both your personal and professional development.
Each course is scheduled at specific points in the year and takes place over 10 weeks, offering around 50 hours of learning, including relevant assessment. The content is delivered entirely online and asynchronously, giving you the flexibility to study at your own pace and fit your learning around other commitments.
Every micro‑credential is built around clear learning outcomes and aligned with industry needs and regional priorities, helping you develop in‑demand skills that are directly applicable to today’s digital landscape.
Whether you’re looking to upskill for career progression, broaden your expertise, or pursue personal development, these targeted courses offer an efficient and accessible way to build the competencies you need to succeed.
They also provide a valuable opportunity for staff development and can complement existing studies, offering a practical route to strengthening digital capability across a range of roles.
Study individual micro-credential courses at your own pace to target specific skills or opt for the full suite to gain comprehensive expertise in digital trust and security.
Enrol individually to boost your own prospects or enrol your team to upskill your entire workforce and stay ahead of the curve.
Our micro-credential courses use assessments designed to be relevant to real-world situations.
Each course (around 50 hours of learning) will focus on two key learning outcomes, and your progress will be assessed through one assignment.
We aim to make assessments relevant to social issues, and where possible, offer you some choice in how you demonstrate your learning.
Assessments have been designed in partnership with an Industry Advisory Board to ensure industry relevance.
The assessment will typically require around 10 hours of work, including any research and preparation.
Earn a credential you can trust. Our courses offer a robust guarantee of quality.
Your learning is validated through detailed, verifiable information embedded in your digital certificate, ensuring transparency and credibility recognised by employers, educational institutions, and other stakeholders.
Upon completion (and relevant assessment), you'll receive an official electronic certificate detailing your achievement, including:
- The total learning hours
- The equivalent academic level of study
- The certificate's validity period
- The awarding institution
Why choose The University of Manchester?
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50th in THE World Reputation Rankings 2025
Our University has been ranked the 50th most powerful global university brand in the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2025.
Centre for Digital Trust and Society
The Centre for Digital Trust and Society generates cross-disciplinary perspectives on digital trust and cyber security within a social context. Our Digital Trust and Security courses are informed by the Centre's research, providing you with up to the minute insight and training in this area.
Digital Futures
Our Digital Futures team is committed to solving key societal challenges, including Digital Skills development as a core theme. We achieve this through close collaboration with students and industry to identify and deliver the digital skills needed to support and responsibly transform the global workplace.
Cyber Security
The University of Manchester has been named as an 'Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research'
The award is made by the National Cyber Security Centre (a branch of GCHQ) and the EPSRC. It was made in 2024, and covers the entirety of The University of Manchester, one of only 21 institutions in the UK to hold this accreditation.
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