CYbersecurity

This is a free program of 2 ECTS credits that will require that the student attends synchronously online for 16 hours of classes (see time schedule below), and additionally perform some autonomous work at home.

Once the synchronous version of this course is finished by end of October 2025, it will be offered in an asynchronous mode for those persons that are not able to follow the synchronous one in the period scheduled.

Each participant who completes this course, either synchronously or asynchronously, will receive a personalised certificate from EIT.

Please note that registration is now open only for synchronous mode; asynchronous will be open by October 15th.

Summary of the course

This course covers a set of basic cybersecurity concepts that are essential for understanding all the security principles and mechanisms necessary to ensure comprehensive data protection. To this end, the course begins with a review of the most common threats to information systems and their development environments, and evaluates which security strategies are most effective in preventing them. In this process of reflection, we will explore the usefulness of the most traditional cryptographic primitives, as well as the effectiveness of many other more advanced services developed at the application level and on specific operating system platforms. This local protection is extended with an overview of advanced network-level services, developed across all layers of the TCP/IP stack, and taking into account some additional services designed exclusively to detect, monitor, and respond to network threats.

Program OF THEMES

1. Cybersecurity in the digital age: Motivation, principles and concepts

Basis cybersecurity fundamentals
Organizations and ecosystems
General threats – classification and use cases

2. How to protect our information: Cryptography and access control principles

Symmetric, asymmetric and hybrid cryptography
Hashes and digital certificates
Authentication and authorization principles

3. Operating System security: Configuration and tools

Windows-level architecture and native services
Linux-level architecture and native services
General applications and tools

4. Network security: Establishing secure connections in the Internet

Security protocols and services
Firewalls for network filtering and segmentation
Virtual networks for network protection adn transmission

5. Advanced cybersecurity: Monitoring our systems against malicious entities

Intrusion detection and prevention systems
Security event management and response
Cyberintelligence for feedback and proactive monitoring

6. Introduction to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) principles

Fundamentals of GDPR
Data protection terminology, principles and legal bases
Privacy-by-design and management of data subjects’ rights

7. Designing Secure and Privacy Aware Systems

Privacy-by-design frameworks and tools
Methodologies, techniques and best practices
Applicability of frameworks and real-world cases

8. Principles and Practices of the Circular Economy

Resource efficiency and waste reduction
Product life-cycle management
Real-world industry cases

Time schedule (all times in CET)

Day	Hours
October 8	18:00-20:00
October 9	18:00-20:00
October 15	18:00-20:00
October 16	18:00-20:00
October 22	18:00-20:00
October 23	18:00-20:00
October 29	18:00-20:00
October 30	18:00-20:00