Entry points, 1st year, Common Courses
Academic year 2023/2024
University of Rennes 1 (UR1)
Programme Lead: Mohamed Sabt, mohamed.sabt@irisa.fr
FIRST SEMESTER
| Compulsory Courses (20 ECTS) | ECTS |
| Introduction to Security | 5 |
| Software Engineering and Security | 5 |
| Operating Systems and Security | 5 |
| Network Security | 5 |
| Elective Courses | |
| I&E | |
| Introduction to Innovation and Business | 5 |
| Knowledge and Intangible Assets Management | 5 |
| Business Development Laboratory 1 | 5 |
SECOND SEMESTER
| Compulsory Courses (20 ECTS) | ECTS |
| Algorithmics for Security | 5 |
| Privacy | 5 |
| System Security | 5 |
| Software Security | 5 |
| Elective Courses | |
| I&E | |
| Business Development Laboratory 2 | 5 |
| Summer School | 4 |
University of Trento (UniTN)
Programme Lead: Bruno Crispo, bruno.crispo@unitn.it
FIRST & SECOND SEMESTER
| Compulsory Courses (36 ECTS) | ECTS |
| Introduction to Computer and Network Security | 6 |
| Cryptography | 6 |
| Software Security Testing | 6 |
| Cyber Security Risk Assessment | 6 |
| Network Security | 6 |
| Privacy and IPR | 6 |
| Advanced and Eligible Courses | |
| Machine Learning | 6 |
| Data Hiding | 6 |
| Formal Techniques for Crypto Protocol Analysis | 6 |
| Laboratory on Offensive Technologies | 12 |
| Finite Fields and Symmetric Cryptography | 6 |
| Distributed Systems 2 | 6 |
| Innovation and Entrepreneurship Courses | |
| Innovation and Entrepreneurship Basics (Economics and Management) | 6 |
| Business Development Lab | 9 |
| ICT Innovation - Product Design and Development | 6-9 |
| I&E Studies | 6 |
University of Turku (UTU)
Programme Lead: Dr Seppo Virtanen, seppo.virtanen@utu.fi
FIRST & SECOND SEMESTER
| Compulsory Courses (31 ECTS) | ECTS |
| System and Application Security | 5 |
| Network Infrastructure Technologies and Security | 5 |
| Human Element in Information Security | 5 |
| Management of Information System Security and IT Service | 6 |
| Foundations of Cryptography | 5 |
| Cryptography I | 5 |
| Innovation and Entrepreneurship | |
| Introduction to Innovation and Business | 5 |
| Business Development Laboratory | 7 |
| Enterprise Architecture | 6 |
| Business Management of Startups | 3 |
| Summer School | 4 |
| Elective Courses | |
| Selected together with student from available courses during personal study planning. |
University of Twente (UT)
Programme Lead: Florian Hahn, f.w.hahn@utwente.nl
FIRST SEMESTER
| Compulsory Major Courses (15 ECTS) | ECTS |
| Cyber Risk Management | 5 |
| Security and Cryptography | 5 |
| Software Security | 5 |
| Compulsory I&E Courses (15 ECTS) | |
| I&E Basics: Innovation and Entrepreneurial Finance for EIT | 5 |
| Business Development Lab I | 5 |
| Computer Ethics | 5 |
| Optional Courses | |
| Economics of Security | 5 |
| System Validation (only in comb. w/ SeV, if needed) | 5 |
| Basic Machine Learning (only in comb. w/ CDA, if needed) | 5 |
| I&E: Brand Management | 5 |
| I&E: Bioresource Business Development & Management | 5 |
| Introduction to Biometrics | 5 |
| Cyber Security Management | 5 |
| Distributed Systems (only in comb. w/ BCT, if needed) | 5 |
| I&E: Bioresource Supply Chain Management | 5 |
SECOND SEMESTER
| Compulsory Major Courses (15 ECTS) | ECTS |
| Internet Security | 5 |
| Privacy-Enhancing Technologies | 5 |
| System Security | 5 |
| Compulsory I&E Courses (5 ECTS) | |
| Business Development Lab II | 5 |
| Optional Courses | |
| Software Testing and Reverse Engineering | 5 |
| Blockchain & Distr. Ledger Tech. (check w/ teacher if DiS req.) | 5 |
| Security Verification (check w/ teacher if SyV req.) | 5 |
| Cyber Crime Science | 5 |
| I&E: Global Strategy and Business Development | 5 |
| Cyber Data Analytics (check w/ teacher if MaL req.) | 5 |
| E-Law | 5 |
| Security Services for the Internet of Things | 5 |
| I&E: Information Systems for the Financial Services Industry | 5 |
| I&E: Empirical Methods for Designers | 5 |
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Programme Lead: Dr. Peter Burcsi, bupe@inf.elte.hu
FIRST SEMESTER
| Compulsory Courses (16 ECTS) | ECTS |
| Research Methodology | 5 |
| Introduction to Computer Security | 6 |
| Cryptography | 5 |
| I&E (10 ECTS) | |
| I&E Basics | 6 |
| Business Development Lab I. | 4 |
SECOND SEMESTER
| Compulsory Courses (20 ECTS) | ECTS |
| Design and Analysis of Algorithms | 4 |
| Network and System Security | 6 |
| Information Security and Privacy | 6 |
| Advanced Software Technology | 4 |
| I&E (10 ECTS) | |
| Business Development Lab II. | 4 |
| Innosocial Aspects of the Entrepreneurship | 6 |
Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB)
Programme Lead: Dr. Darius Bufnea, darius.bufnea@ubbcluj.ro, cyber-master@cs.ubbcluj.ro
FIRST SEMESTER
| Compulsory Courses (17 ECTS) | ECTS |
| Cryptography | 7 |
| Security Audit and Risk Management | 6 |
| Computer Ethics and Academic Integrity | 4 |
| I&E Compulsory Course (8 ECTS) | |
| Digital Economy Principles - I&E basics | 8 |
| I&E Elective Courses (5 ECTS) | |
| Agile Project Management | 5 |
| Strategic Business Process Automation | 5 |
SECOND SEMESTER
| Compulsory Courses (12 ECTS) | ECTS |
| Web and Internet Security | 6 |
| Quality Aspects of Security in Software Testing | 6 |
| I&E Compulsory Courses (11 ECTS) | |
| Innovation Management - I&E Business Dev Lab | 7 |
| (Thematic Project with Innovation Challenge) EIT Digital Summer School | 4 |
| Elective Courses (7 ECTS) | |
| Network Security and Administration | 7 |
| Blockchain Security | 7 |
| Complex Networks in Security | 7 |
Exit points, 2nd year, Specialisation
Academic year 2024/2025
University of Trento (UniTN)
Programme Lead: Bruno Crispo, bruno.crispo@unitn.it
SPECIALISATION: Applied Security
In recent years, the most popular computing and communications platforms have changed dramatically from old desktops and personal computers to a myriad of new devices, often embedded and personal. New devices used not only to navigate the web, send email and write document but rather to support pervasively most of the activity users perform during their everyday life. This revolution has touched private, business and governmental domains (e.g., industry 4.0, Internet of Things, critical infrastructures, smartphones, smart cities, etc.). This in turn has created entire new ecosystems that include technical, social and economic factors.
The specialisation Applied Security focuses on addressing security and privacy for these new ecosystems trying a holistic approach that does not focus only on technical issues. It covers the technological aspects such as investigating and experimenting new class of threats and vulnerabilities that apply to these new systems or designing user authentication mechanisms for devices were passwords cannot be an option. It also covers the economic aspects that are crucial to understand attackers, their motivations and the best defence strategy (i.e., When is worth patching a vulnerability? Which vulnerability is worth patching? Are economic-related questions rather than technical-related ones).
THIRD & FOURTH SEMESTER
| Specialisation Courses | ECTS |
| Multimedia Data Security | 6 |
| Offensive Technologies | 12 |
| Project course | 6 |
| Research course | 12 |
| Security Testing | 6 |
| Distributed Systems 2 | 6 |
| Privacy and Intellectual Property Rights | 6 |
| Machine Learning | 6 |
University of Turku (UTU)
Programme Lead: Dr Seppo Virtanen, seppo.virtanen@utu.fi
SPECIALISATION: Security of Networked Systems
The specialisation Security of Networked Systems focuses on researching cyber security technologies for networked systems and applications of the communication-intensive future. The technological topics covered include system and network security, security of communication systems and applications, and designing secure systems.
The goal of this specialisation is to give its students profound and substantial education and expertise in the field. Optional studies selected personally for each student build a special individual information security expertise profile. The curriculum consists of both theoretical and hands-on study modules. Also a large group project module called 'Capstone project' can be included in the studies.
The graduates of this specialisation will have strong technological, theoretical and practical understanding in security of networked systems. With their new knowledge and skills the graduates can proceed to building a successful career in securing the information and communication technology in the industry.
THIRD & FOURTH SEMESTER
| Compulsory Courses (15 ECTS) | ECTS |
| Firewall and IPS Technology | 5 |
| Security Engineering | 5 |
| Protocol Processing and Security | 5 |
| I&E (6 ECTS) | |
| I&E Study | 6 |
| Elective Courses | |
| Communication Technologies and Security in IoT | 5 |
| Capstone Project | 10 |
| Cryptography 2 | 5 |
| Algebraic Structures in Cryptography | 5 |
| Privacy and Security for Software Systems | 5 |
| Ethical Hacking | 5 |
| Seminar 1 (TurkuSec meetings) | 1-5 |
| In addition to the courses listed above, a variety of courses qualifying as elective studies are available annually. Electives are chosen individually for each student when their personal study plan is made. |
Dr Seppo Virtanen is Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Engineering at University of Turku, Finland. He is the Vice Head of the Department of Computing. Dr Virtanen received his MSc degree in Electronics and Information Technology in 1998 and DSc (Tech.) degree in Communication Systems in 2004 from the University of Turku. He serves regularly as a programme committee member and referee for international journals and conferences. Currently the focus in his research is on information security issues in the communication and network technology domain, specifically focusing on design and methodological aspects of reliable and secure communication systems and secure communication for IoT. He has acted as the supervisor or the examiner of 10 PhD theses, 135 Master’s theses and 35 Bachelor’s theses.
University of Twente (UT)
Programme Leads: Dr Florian Hahn, f.w.hahn@utwente.nl, Dr Andreas Peter, a.peter@utwente.nl
SPECIALISATION: High Tech, Human Touch
Although cryptography has been around for quite some time, emerging concepts such as “Bring Your Own Technology”, the “Internet of Everything”, or 'Crypto Currencies' that increasingly exploit mobility and personalisation, put new requirements on security technologies; think about the e-cigarette USB-charger that infects a big corporation with malware. Today’s high diversity of Internet-connected systems and services led to a substantial increase of (new) cyber-attacks in the past years.
Such Internet-connected systems can be found in almost every domain, including critical infrastructures (e.g., water supply), as well as in large-scale services (e.g., hospitals) and embedded systems (e.g., in-car control systems). Notably, many risks for such systems are not solely technical but use the human factor as a characteristic element (e.g., through social engineering).
Our specialisation looks at the many risks in the above-mentioned settings and provides mitigations that can be used at design time and at operation time, while taking into account the specific requirements of the various systems and the impact that risks might have. As a distinguishing element, we include the 'human touch' in our attack analysis and mitigation techniques (e.g., replacing password-checks with biometric-verification or raising situational awareness to mitigate social engineering attacks).
| Specialisation Courses | ECTS |
| Secure Data Management | 5 |
| Secure Cloud Computing | 5 |
| Cloud Networking | 5 |
| Introduction to Biometrics | 5 |
| Economics of Security | 5 |
| Cyber Risk Management | 5 |
| Cyber Security Management | 5 |
| System Validation | 5 |
| Basic Machine Learning | 5 |
| Advanced Machine Learning | 5 |
| Security Verification | 5 |
| Governance of Cybersecurity | 5 |
| Distributed Systems | 5 |
| Internet of Things | 5 |
| Fundamental of Quantum Information | 4 |
| Quantum Cryptography | 5 |
| Computer Ethics | 5 |
The University of Twente (UT) holds the title of the most entrepreneurial university in Europe. As such, it has an extremely large network in industry that includes around 1000 university spin-offs (e.g., Booking.com was founded by a UT alumni). This provides excellent opportunities to connect to industry and access to a multitude of internship offers.
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Programme Lead: Dr. Peter Burcsi, bupe@inf.elte.hu
SPECIALISATION: Advanced Cryptography
The specialisation focuses on the general ideas, techniques and methods of applied cryptography as well as on the theoretical background and solid knowledge, putting security in a wider context. Security and privacy are considered both from the technological and from the economical point of view, which supports decisions in many practical cases. Applied cryptography serves as a base for most of the secure IT-systems (e.g. in Future Media and Content Delivery, Smart Spaces, Digital cities, Health and ICT-Mediated Human Activity, and Enabling the Internet of the Future).
THIRD & FOURTH SEMESTER
| Compulsory Courses (24 ECTS) | ECTS |
| Cyber Security Lab I. | 4 |
| Advanced Cryptography | 6 |
| Cryptographic Protocols | 6 |
| Provably Secure Modular Design of Cryptographic Protocols | 6 |
| Preparation course for master studies and developing learning skills (It can be substituted with any other technical CSE course) | 2 |
| I&E (6 ECTS) | |
| I&E Study | 6 |
Peter Burcsi is an Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Computer Algebra at the Faculty of Informatics, ELTE - Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research areas are algorithms in elementary number theory and cryptography. He has participated in several security-related research and industrial projects at ELTE.
EURECOM
Programme Leads: Prof. Philippe Benassi, Dr. Antonio Faonio, master-eit-cse@eurecom.fr
SPECIALISATION: Mobile and Cloud Security
The specialisation Mobile and Cloud Security focuses on mobile systems and the security and privacy issues thereof, with a strong focus on android based smartphones and wireless protocols.
THIRD & FOURTH SEMESTER
| Semester 9 (30 ECTS) | ECTS |
| UE Fundamentals EIT Digital Security (5 ECTS) | |
| Security and Privacy for Big Data and Cloud | 2.5 |
| Multipary Computation and Blockchains | 2.5 |
| Mobile Systems and Smartphone Security | 5 |
| UE Electives EIT Digital Security (10 ECTS) | |
| Machine Learning and Intelligent | 5 |
| Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing | 5 |
| Mobile Communication Systems | 5 |
| Mobile Application and Services | 5 |
| UE I&E (6 ECTS) | |
| Innovation and Entrepreneurship EIT Digital (external course) | 6 |
| UE Project (8 ECTS) | 8 |
| UE Languages (1 ECTS) | 1 |
MASTER THESIS (30 ECTS)
Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB)
Programme Lead: Dr. Darius Bufnea: darius.bufnea@ubbcluj.ro, cyber-master@cs.ubbcluj.ro
SPECIALISATION: Software Security
The courses in the 2nd year will have a strong focus on knowledge about 'Software Security', which is also the specialisation of the exit year. Students will be able to take courses like: Advanced Software Security, Securing Mobile Applications, Program Analysis for Software Security, and Cloud Application and Infrastructure Security. These courses will address advanced topics such as: software quality models, security as a quality factor in software, security analysis and verification of software, design of security checking tools, cloud and mobile application security. The overall goal of this specialisation is for students to understand and assess different software security issues, in order to learn how to detect security vulnerabilities as soon as possible in the development cycle and to develop a more secure software from design to implementation.
This master’s programme offers a multiple perspective on the field of cyber security, addressing issues related to its various components: operating system security, network security, organisation and business process security, and, of course, security of the software itself.
THIRD SEMESTER
| Compulsory Courses (24 ECTS) | ECTS |
| Advanced Software Security | 6 |
| Securing Mobile Applications | 6 |
| Program Analysis for Software Security | 6 |
| Cloud Application and Infrastructure Security | 6 |
| I&E Compulsory Course (6 ECTS) | |
| Entrepreneurship in IT - I&E Study | 6 |
FOURTH SEMESTER
| (30 ECTS) | ECTS |
| Internship in Specialisation | 20 |
| Project in Cybersecurity | 6 |
| Elaboration of the Dissertation Thesis | 4 |
The programme also has a strong emphasis on practical knowledge in the field of cyber security, the curricula being discussed with a number of companies that offer services and solutions in this field. Some of the students’ activities, such as the internship or the thematic projects, can be carried out in partnership with the partner companies/industry in the field. The latter have a strong local presence, the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, being known as a strong development hub in the field of IT&C.