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Cybersecurity

General Information

The cybersecurity Master’s program offers a strong foundation and detailed technical knowledge in security, privacy, and cryptography.

Master studets will acquire knowledge and skills to plan, manage, and maintain the security of an organization’s cloud infrastructure and applications through face-to-face theoretical and practical courses, and a capstone project.

Cybersecurity Master's Program takes two years. Program gives you 120 credits.

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Objectives of „Cybersecurity“ master degree program

„Cybersecurity “master's Program is designed to provide advanced knowledge, skills, and expertise required to tackle the ever-growing and sophisticated challenges in the field of cybersecurity. This program typically focuses on preparing students for leadership roles in securing digital infrastructures, mitigating cyber threats, and responding to incidents.

Master of Science in Cybersecurity Program Learning Outcomes

By the end of the “Cybersecurity” MSc program, graduates will be able to:

Demonstrate advanced, critical understanding of core cybersecurity domains and their scientific foundations, recognise the limits of current knowledge and track emerging directions.
Analyse complex socio-technical and cyber-physical systems under uncertainty using appropriate models and evidence, infer causes from data and quantify and prioritise risk.
Design and justify secure architectures and controls that balance security, safety, privacy, cost, performance and usability, embed secure-by-design and DevSecOps practices to deliver robust and resilient systems on modern digital and cyber-physical platforms.
Plan and conduct rigorous experimental or forensic investigations with reproducible methods and proper ethics, gather and interpret evidence, test hypotheses and report validated conclusions.
Operate, defend and assure real systems using contemporary tools and disciplined operational procedures, demonstrate effectiveness and quality against recognised frameworks and good practice.
Make well-reasoned, evidence-based decisions with incomplete information while considering legal, ethical, societal and economic implications, define governance and risk, develop defensible policy and compliance strategies.
Communicate complex technical ideas clearly (written & oral) to specialist and non-specialist audiences, prepare and publish technical and academic documentation, contribute to innovation and lead or contribute effectively in interdisciplinary and multicultural teams, to manage projects and achieve agreed outcomes
Sustain self-directed learning and research by critically appraising new knowledge, standards and technologies, plan professional development to close gaps and maintain growth in expertise and leadership.

Laboratories

The Computer Network laboratory (room 169) is equipped by SOCAR and Huawei company. In this laboratory, students majoring in cyber security learn advanced networks configuration and network security tools.

Partners:

Huawei, CISCO, Microsoft, AzInTelecom, Pasha Bank, ABB Bank, Kapital Bank