Master’s Degree of Engineering, major in Cybersecurity

The program of Cybersecurity aims at teaching students the knowledge and solid skills in advanced specification, design, development, implementation, and maintenance of secure systems.

In particular, students should understand and apply methods and techniques to investigate vulnerabilities of a given system or a solution such as scanning techniques and penetration testing, from a theoretical and practical point of view.
In addition, we focus on systems security management and audit. A didactic methodology is applied, based on classes, specialized seminars, conferences, case studies, practical sessions in computer labs, tutorials, projects, and self-learning. Students should participate in some international challenges around at least one of the cybersecurity domains (Systems, Networks, Telecommunication, Software, Web, and Hardware)

Target Skills

• Know the relevant technical parts of legal regulations in cybersecurity and their implications in the design of systems and security tools.
• Understand and master the basic security services: authentication, authorization, privacy and access control, etc.
• Analyze and detect anomalies and attack signatures in information systems and the web.
• Applying vulnerability exploitation to gain unauthorized access.
• Create and refine concise and comprehensively documents, plans, and projects in the scope of cybersecurity.
• Know the trends in the cyber-attack techniques.
• Know and apply the cryptographic and steganographic mechanisms required to protect data stored in a system or data transiting a network.
• Design and evaluate security architectures for Applications, systems Web sites and networks.
• Analyze the risks of introducing personal devices in a corporate professional environment. Know and apply the measures to control the risks.

Learning Activities And Methodology

• Lectures and practical session in the lab
• Individual and group work with projects
• Seminaries, conferences, and challenges