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Marc Wright

Lecturer in Cyber Security

Marc Wright is a cyber security lecturer in the field of ethical hacking and national cyber security threat modelling and simulating. These areas form the focus his PhD.

Biography

Marc is a lecturer at University of Gloucestershire on the BSc (Hons) Cyber Security course, with around six years of teaching experience in higher education. Marc teaches technical modules including operating systems, ethical hacking, penetration testing, and networking. This is both at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Marc gained a first-class degree in Cyber Security from University of Gloucestershire and subsequently proceeded to start his PhD Scholarship at the University.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Cyber Security, University of Gloucestershire, 2019

Teaching

Marc’s primary areas for teaching are ethical hacking and penetration testing, which involves practising hacking techniques on virtual machines which he has made. This demonstrates to students what the different cyber attacks do and how it is possible to gain access through vulnerabilities once they have found they exist through enumeration methods.

Research

Marc’s research is into national cyber security threat modelling and simulation of critical national infrastructure, involving looking at the critical infrastructure interdependencies across critical infrastructure supply chains.

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