Cyber Security Training

2024/2025

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

This project module aims at:

  • Providing students the opportunity to combine their knowledge from previous courses and projects with the need for teaching and training at different levels.
  • Providing students the opportunity to improve their skills when it comes to communication, teaching and training.
  • Enabling students to identify what competence development is needed to improve the security posture of an organization, and design relevant teaching/training activities.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

  • Must have deep knowledge of security concepts, both from the defender's and the attacker's perspectives.
  • Must have knowledge on problems within cyber security, that individuals, companies, organizations, public institutions, and nations can encounter
  • Must have knowledge about the relation between security risks, business processes and knowledge in an organization.
  • Must have knowledge on relevant frameworks for cyber security skills and competences.
  • Must have knowledge on active learning methodologies and/or other relevant approaches to teaching and learning.
  • Must be able to combine the knowledge of the previous semester's projects and courses.

Skills

Must have skills in:

  • defining relevant learning objectives to match the need for improving cyber security related skills in an organization or association, depending on their challenges with respect to cyber security.
  • designing content and format of a training program for one or more specific target groups.
  • creating relevant cases, including replicating one or more vulnerabilities in a way that can be used for training relevant skills – for example in a Capture The Flag or Attack-Defense setting.
  • defining relevant cases for teaching/training a specific target group

Competences

Must have competences in:

  • how existing or newly acquired knowledge can be assessed and evaluated, for example in order to determine the current skill level among employees and identify relevant training initiatives.
  • identifying cyber security needs in an organization, and the role of competence development to meet these needs.
  • communicating cyber security challenges and solutions to different target groups, including both technical and non-technical groups, and to experts as well as non-experts.

Type of instruction

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

Exam

Exams

Name of examCyber Security Training
Type of exam
Oral exam based on a project
ECTS15
Permitted aids
All written and all electronic aids
Assessment7-point grading scale
Type of gradingInternal examination
Criteria of assessmentThe criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures

Facts about the module

Danish titleGovernance af it-sikkerhed
Module codeESNCYSK3P6
Module typeProject
Duration1 semester
SemesterAutumn
ECTS15
Language of instructionEnglish
Empty-place SchemeYes
Location of the lectureCampus Copenhagen
Responsible for the module

Organisation

Education ownerMaster of Science (MSc) in Engineering (Cyber Security)
Study BoardStudy Board of Electronics and IT
DepartmentDepartment of Electronic Systems
FacultyThe Technical Faculty of IT and Design