Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

• To provide students the opportunity to combine their knowledge from previous courses and projects.
• To give students the chance to improve their programming and software engineering competences.
• To enable students to develop approaches that are in the frontier of cyber security engineering and research

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Must have knowledge about the relation between security risks and business processes, including indentification and protection of business-critical Assets.
• Must have knowledge on identifying security properties and requirements of a system (including e.g. software systems, cyber physical systems, distributed systems and embedded system).
• Must have knowledge of secure software development and scripting.
• Must be able to combine the knowledge of the previous semester's projects and courses
• Must have deep knowledge of security concepts, both from the defender's and the attacker's perspectives. 

Skills

• Must be able to identify the research and development challenges for a cyber security engineering project and propose/develop relevant solutions
• Must be able to use various state of the art frameworks for analysing network traffic, identifying adversaties, as well as for developing/deploying attacks.
• Must be able to understand security requirements for an organisation
• Must be able to include strong security, cryptography and acess control elements in mobile and web-based applications.
• Must be skills in communicating cyber security challenges and solutions to non-experts

Competences

• Must have competencies in identifying cyber security needs in an organisation
• Must have competencies in combining a wide range of networks, technologies and devices to relize advanced and non-trivial applications and solutions
• Must have competencies in comparing and assessing the potential of different technologies, methods and appoaches to make proper security design choices
• Must have competences to independently define and analyze, scientific and engineering problems in the area defined by the project theme, also in cooperation with external/internal partners or as a part of a multidosplinary projects.
• Must have competences to control the workning and development process within the project theme.

Type of instruction

Types of instruction are listed at the start of §17; Structure and contents of the programme.

Exam

Exams