Cyber Security (MSc)

This programme is designed for highly educated professionals (computer scientists, lawyers, policy makers) with several years of professional experience in and/or affinity with issues in the field of cyber security. During the two year programme you will enhance your expertise in cyber security and improve your ability to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.

We offer three options to follow this Executive master programme:

1. Follow the full Cyber Security programme
2. Follow introductory courses as a contract student
3. Follow introductory courses as a non-examination student

Our programme will teach you to make connections between technical, legal and social scientific aspects of cyber security, so you can come to effective and sustainable solutions for cyber risks and threats. Subsequently, you will be able to contribute effectively to sustainable strategies for digital defensibility and security of society as a whole, including organisations and citizens.

What will you learn?

During this programme, you will learn to:

• Identify the complexities and interdependencies in cyber space
• Contribute solutions to cyber risks, both from a technological and a policy and administrative approach
• Relegate cyber threats to acceptable risks
• Build a bridge between largely technical and more administrative-oriented professionals in organisations
• Translate technical and operational issues to a strategic level
• Reflect critically on new developments and results of research into cyber security
• Offer independent contributions to cyber security research