Master in International Cybersecurity and Cyberintelligence
The Master’s Programme in international Cybersecurity and Cyberintelligence is a full-time master’s programme jointly developed and taught in English. The programme offers specialised academic education in Cybersecurity, Cyberintelligence and International Relations and Law for Cybersecurity. It corresponds to a regular study period of four semesters or two years, jointly carried out by four European Universities: Granada (Spain), Minho (Portugal), Padua (Italy) and Vilnius (Lithuania), through the use of physical mobility around these four universities, and students attending virtual, blended and local courses.
The University of Padua and the University of Minho are in charge of the teaching during the first semester; Vilnius University during the second semester; the University of Granada during the third semester; and the last semester is designated for the master’s Thesis, with tutoring from all partners of the consortium, and a Graduation Week, all of these activities organised by the University of Minho.
At the end of their studies, students will be able to integrate not only in any field of the cyber security industry but especially in cyber intelligence teams working at an international level.
Course Syllabus
The curriculum is structured into four semesters, for a total of 12 mandatory classes and 4 optional classes to be chosen among 12.
The core of the curriculum consists of the following mandatory classes:
- Fundamentals of cryptography (I semester, Padova)
- Digital Forensics (I semester, Padova)
- Secure software development (I semester, Padova)
- Fundamentals on international cybersecurity (I semester, Minho)
- Operating systems security (II semester, Vilnius)
- Security of applications (II semester, Vilnius)
- International management of cybersecurity (II semester, Vilnius)
- Research projects (II semester, Vilnius)
- Ethical hacking (III semester, Granada)
- Cyberprotection systems (III semester, Granada)
- Network security (III semester, Granada)
- International cyberintelligence (III semester, Granada)
The students will then choose one class among the following electives in the I semester (Padova):
- Mobile security
- Cyberphysical and IoT security
- Machine Learning techniques for event correlation
- Formal methods for cyberphysical systems
- Quantum cryptography and security
- Privacy preserving information access
- Law and data
one among the following electives in the II semester (Vilnius):
- Malware
- Rapid reaction and first response
and finally, two classes among the electives in the III semester (Granada):
- International cooperation in cyberspace
- Cyberwarfare
- Post-quantum cryptography
The IV semester will be mainly devoted to the thesis work, and writing. It will be spent by the students as an internship either in a company, or in a research institution.
The programme conclusion will be held at University of Minho with the thesis defence by all students which will be preceded by a practical laboratory exercise.
In addition to this, as an academic program, our master seeks to be agnostic, prioritising training in open-source tools and platforms. The following table includes the platforms and tools used, highlighting those that are used more intensively.
Course Additional Information
Mobility path
The students will be organised in a cohort that will jointly move around the four universities in the master consortium. This way, they will stay:
- at the University of Padova for the first semester (face-to-face classes), and extra classes for a single course taught from the University of Minho.
- at Vilnius university for the second semester (face-to-face classes);
- at the University of Granada for the third semester.
- Finally, the fourth semester will be dedicated to master’s Thesis (with remote or local tutoring, as preferred by students), ending with the graduation week to be held face-to-face at the University of Minho.
Overall programme structure
Periods
| Start date | End date | Start time | End time | Target Audience | Meetings | Code | Price | ||||
| 01.01.1970 | 01.01.1970 | 00:00 | 00:00 | M240001 -A |