Online Cybersecurity Master's Degree

The current cybersecurity situation. What are the cyberthreats and how can they be dealt with?

Global Cybersecurity Panorama:

• Current cybersecurity overview
• Cybersecurity labor market
• General cybersecurity concepts
• Defense in depth: technology, processes, and people.
• Cybersecurity domains: management, architecture, services.
• The future of cybersecurity: Megatrends (Blockchain, IoT, 5G, quantum computing, IA/ML).

Cyberthreats:

• Cyberthreat actors: motivation, activity and TTPs.

Cybersecurity Management

• Risk management and control.
• Regulation / Compliance

Scripting, communication security and malware: What it is, how it works and life cycle.

Programming Concepts:::

• Introduction and aims
• Numerical representation in computing
• Variables and constants
• Lists and dictionaries
• Arithmetic operators
• Logical operators
• Sequence, repetition, and branching
• Functions
• Classes and objects (basic)
• Programming languages
• Practical work

Communication Protocols - TCP/IP:::

• Network protocols
• Security at the physical and data-link layers
• Security at the network layer
• Security at the transport layer
• Security at the application layer

Malware:

• What is malware?
• Malware development
• Files susceptible to containing malware
• Infection vectors
• Malware stages
• Anti-malware tools
• APT: Advanced Persistent Threats

Pentesting. Determining the techniques, procedures and tools used to identify vulnerabilities in networks and systems.

• Fundamental concepts, methodologies, and tools
• Information gathering and enumeration
• Exploitation
• Post-exploitation

Designing and establishing plans to securely configure systems and networks. Understanding the standards and good practices within the sector

• Risk-based approach to defining security levels
• Benchmark standards for secure configuration
• Bastioning in Windows environments
• Bastioning in Linux environments
• Security settings for mobile apps
• Bastioning for Web apps
• Network security architectures

Discover standards and techniques to verify network and system security and ensure they are securely set up.

• Cryptography
• Introduction to cybersecurity auditing
• End-to-end auditing
• Fieldwork and microplanning
• Cybersecurity audit tools & case studies

Developing cybersecurity incident response plans, using identification, containment, and recovery techniques.

• Introduction to incident management
  • Incident response process
  • Incident response team
  • Cybersecurity Operations Centre (SOC)
  • Organization, roles, and responsibilities
• Cybersecurity incident management
  • Incident identification and classification
  • Digital forensics
  • Incident reporting and response
  • Containment and response case studies
• Cyberintelligence
  • Evidence collection and analysis
  • Reporting and lessons learned
  • Threat intelligence
• Good practice in incident management
  • Risk prevention and mitigation strategies
  • Tools and technologies
  • The role of staff awareness and training
  • Regulatory and reference frameworks
• Artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity
  • Impact of AI on cybersecurity
  • Risks and threats arising from the use of AI
  • AI in threat detection and response
  • Regulating AI
  • Use cases and tools

Application of forensic analysis methodologies and tools characterizing the preservation, collection, analysis and documentation phases.

• Forensic analysis methodology
• Tools and solutions
• Forensic analysis in Windows environments
• Forensic analysis in Linux environments
• Forensic analysis on mobile devices
• Generating reports

Final Master's Project in Online Cybersecurity in which everything learned is put into practice by applying it to a real case and using data connected to the professional world. It is carried out at the end of the curriculum, is mandatory, and is supervised by the assigned tutor. Furthermore, this project involves a defence before a panel that must be passed.