Advanced cybersecurity (5 cr)

Objective

You know how to design and implement cybersecurity solutions for companies and individual users.
You understand the importance of cybersecurity to society and companies.
You are able to improve your personal cyberhygiene and identify and prevent threats which may compromise a company's information systems.
You understand more profoundly the practices of information risk management and know the related essential standards and regulations.
You know how to follow the essential information sources in the field.

Content

Cybersecurity on a large scale
Threat and vulnerability analysis
Information risk management
ISO 27000 series
ISO 31000
Information sources

Course material

Lecturing materials in Learn, www sources and references

Study forms and methods

You participate into scheduled contact lessons. You studies are progressing in the pace of the group schedule and self paced learning activities

Independent track:
If you are working in a company, organisation or a higher education project aligned with the study unit learning outcomes, you are able to complete the study unit in your workplace. In this case contact your responsible teacher in the beginning of the studies to agree with a development project you can execute in your work. Successful completion requires you study the topics in theory and practise. You must show your skills via a demonstration, which is determined based on learning objectives.

RDI and work-related cooperation

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Student workload

Achieving the learning outcomes requires 135 hours of work.
Inluding lectures, teamworking studies and independent homework and exercises.

Evaluation scale

1-5