The current global context, together with IT market trends and the demand in this market, require a strong training of cybersecurity experts. The global situation, the ever-increasing cybercrime, the need to train and educate IT personnel on how to counter cyber threats, and the clear and concise exposition of methods to mitigate cyber attacks, make the Cybersecurity Master’s degree program fit into a well-defined and concise context with an increasing market share and demand.

The Cybersecurity Master’s degree programme aims to inculcate generic notions of cybersecurity, which will help familiarise Master’s degree students with the fundamental concepts that define cybersecurity, such as malware, cyber-attacks, zero-day exploitation, etc.
Subsequently, the knowledge set continues with the exposure of cyber threat management associated with the most common areas of the IT market where cyber security has a major impact, not only financially, but also in terms of the associated infrastructure: in the private environment, in virtualised/cloud environments, and in academia.

The consequences of such an impact are also immediately visible in business. 2017 brought a significantly higher economic impact of cybersecurity, by 23%, in financial terms compared to 2016. Essential security aspects in this context, such as detection, containment, recovery and investigation have all suffered, but trends vary and are becoming worrying: malware applications still dominate today’s cyber attacks and ransomware applications have doubled in number in just one year, demonstrating that security is becoming not only important but imperative to protect personal data and avoid significant costs as a result of security breaches.