IT Cyber Security Maria Curie-Sklodowska University

Overview

The knowledge related to political science and administration in the IT Cyber Security program at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University includes: 

• the place of cybersecurity in the contemporary understanding of security;
• the complexity of security threats in cyberspace; 
• diversity of areas of activities to ensure security in cyberspace, taking into account political science, but also legal, economic and sociological approaches. 

Knowledge related to computer science includes: 

• The principles of operation of the operating system, its tasks and weaknesses
• basic programming structures and rules of designing programming scripts; 
• functioning of web applications and knowledge about the basic weaknesses of web applications;
• principles of operation of computer networks and, weaknesses of protocols and mechanisms operating in all layers of the OSI model;
• principles and best practices for safe web application programming;
• principles of operation of cryptographic modules and the manner of their application in IT Systems;
• the process of performing penetration tests and ability to describe each stage;
• standards for information security management. 

Computer science skills include: 

• efficient performance of tasks in the Linux operating system;
• designing a simple algorithm and creating its implementation using Python;
• conducting security tests for Web applications based on the OWASP standard;
• Analysing the weaknesses of the computer network and applying a security mechanism to protect against potential attacks; 
• Finding security bugs in web applications and applying corrections to eliminate them;
• performance of the required analysis regarding the application of cryptographic methods and the use of appropriate cryptographic modules;
• performing all stages of penetration testing;
• creating process documentation of the IT system and conducting a risk analysis of such a system.