Full course breakdown

Subjects covered:

Cybersecurity for Business is a 10 ECTS module with 5 hours per week, over 12 weeks. The following schedule outlines the topics covered each week:

1. Introduction to Cybersecurity
   • Overview of cybersecurity, its importance, and the growing demand for professionals
   • Understanding online identity, data, and their significance to cybercriminals.
   • Seminar on real-world cybersecurity challenges
2. Risk Management and Compliance
   • Exploring the significance of safeguarding electronic information networks and data
   • Regulatory compliance requirements for business
   • Implementing risk assessments and developing risk mitigation strategies.
   • Lab on security breach case studies
3. Network Security for Business
   • Addressing software and hardware vulnerabilities, device, network, and cloud security
   • Implementing secure network infrastructure including best practices for securing wireless networks and remote access
   • Lab on securing the application landscape, incident response planning and security incidents management
4. Cyber Attacks: Concepts and Techniques
   • Analysis of cyberattacks, identifying and classifying security vulnerabilities.
   • Understanding endpoint security challenges in business environments
   • Securing IoT devices and other connected endpoints in business networks
   • Seminar on vulnerabilities and real-world use cases
5. Data and Privacy Protection
   • Best practices for protecting computer devices, wireless networks, and online accounts
   • Implementing cryptographic methods for business data
   • Exploration of ethical implications and considerations in using AI and cryptography for data privacy protection
   • Practical exercises on implementing cryptographic techniques for privacy-preserving data sharing and analysis
   • Lab on data encryption and backup strategies
6. Organisational protection and cloud security for business
   • Techniques for firewall configuration, port scanning, and certificate updates.
   • Securing cloud services and data storage in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments
   • Identity and access management in the cloud
   • Data backup and disaster recovery planning for cloud-based systems
   • Lab on using tools for security monitoring
7. Cyberattack Detection and Cyberdefense
   • Real-time attack detection, best security practices, and understanding botnets and the kill chain
   • Lab on behaviour-based security
8. Tools for incident prevention and detection
   • Overview of CSIRT, security playbooks, IDS, and IPS
9. Cybersecurity Legal Issues
   • Personal legal issues. Corporate Legal Issues.
   • International Law and Cybersecurity.
10. Ethical Issues in Cybersecurity
    • Overview of cybersecurity laws, regulations, and industry standards applicable to businesses.
    • Understanding ethical considerations in cybersecurity decision-making.
    • Addressing legal and ethical challenges related to incident response, data breaches, and privacy violations.
    • Discussion on ethical considerations and the role of professional organisations in cybersecurity ethics.
11. Cyberwarfare
    • Understanding cyberwarfare, its objectives, and impacts.
12. Emerging Topics and Careers in Cybersecurity
    • Exploration of AI in cyberattacks and defence, the geopolitical aspects of cyberspace, and blockchain technology.