Educate yourself to be a Cyber Security Professional

Student knowledge profile is dictated through their personal learning plan.

Cyber Security Master’s Degree programme student knows how about management, technical implementations, auditing, legislation and regulations of cyber security. The student will know how to plan, develop, implement and control different technological solutions in realistic company environments. The student will also learn how to test and audit these solutions. Student has the knowledge and skills to defend cyber security attacks in a safe, education-oriented cyber environment.

The student will have the ability for life-long learning professionally, make decisions and communicate effectively as part of a multinational team. The student knows how to conduct research ethically.

After completing the studies you will know about management, technical implementations, auditing, legislation and regulations of cyber security. You know how to plan, develop, implement and control different technological solutions in realistic company environments. You also learn how to test and audit these solutions. You have the knowledge and skills to defend cyber security attacks in a safe, education-oriented cyber environment.

Cyber security applies to all companies and organisations, whose business depends on working information technology environments. The constantly automating, digitising and IT-dependent society needs a functional and secure IT environment. Thus, cyber security touches the lives of all of us as consumers, employees, entrepreneurs and citizens as members of society, regardless of age.

Cyber security resilience is an organization’s ability to anticipate, respond to, and recover from cyber threats and attacks while maintaining high levels of operational capability and information security. This requires strong situational awareness, enabling the identification and understanding of threats, as well as quick and effective responses to changing conditions.

Master of Engineering, 60 ECTS credits   

Professional Studies, 25 ECTS credits

• Research-based Development, 5 ECTS credits 
• Modern Management of IT, 5 ECTS credits 
• Cyber Security Implementation in Practice, 5 ECTS credits  
• Auditing and Testing Technical Security, 5 ECTS credits  
• Cyber Security Exercise, 5 ECTS credits  

Master’s Thesis, 30 ECTS credits  

Complementary Competence

• Elective studies, 5 ECTS credits

Scope of the Education

If you have a previously completed Bachelor or Master level degree, you deal with data and know how to program, do apply. The extent of the education is 60 – 90 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) depending on the degree. For example, for someone with a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (B.Eng.) it is 60 ECTS, and for someone with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (BBA) it is 90 ECTS.

As a part-time student, you can complete the programme in approximately two years. It is also possible to complete the programme in one year as full-time studies. The education will be delivered as a multiform teaching where the contact hours will take place during the weekends (approximately 1 weekend per month).

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