Master in International Cybersecurity and Cyberintelligence

The Master’s Programme in international Cybersecurity and Cyberintelligenceis a full-time joint master’s programme taught in English. The programme offers specialised academic education in Cybersecurity, Cyberintelligence and International Relations and Law for Cybersecurity over four semesters or two years. 

Cybersecurity and cyberintelligence are recognized for their multidisciplinary nature, scope, and demand in training. The skills, knowledge, and disposition for the tasks involved are complex, requiring continuous updating and research. Cyberspace is global, as is the effort to keep supporting information systems security.

At the end of their studies, students will be able to integrate not only into any field of the cybersecurity industry, but especially into cyberintelligence teams working at an international level.

Discover the programme

The programme is through four European Universities: University of Granada (Coordinating University, Spain), University of Minho (Portugal), University of Padua (Italy) and Vilnius University (Lithuania), and students have opportunities for physical mobility between these four universities, and attending virtual, blended, and local courses.

A joint degree

Students graduating from the Joint Master’s Programme will be awarded a Joint Diploma Master in International Cybersecurity and Cyberintelligence. All graduates receive a Joint Transcript of Records and a Joint Diploma Supplement, in accordance with the model developed by the European Commission, the Council of Europe, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization – European Centre for Higher Education (CEPES). As the coordinating university, University of Granada prepares and issues these documents.

Mobility path

The students will be organised in a cohort that will move together through the four universities in the consortium:

• First semester: University of Padova (face-to-face classes)
• Second semester: Vilnius university (face-to-face classes)
• Third semester: University of Granada (face-to-face classes)
• Fourth semester: Master’s Thesis (with remote or local tutoring, as preferred by students), ending with the graduation week, in person at the University of Minho

Platforms and tools

As an academic programme, this master seeks to be agnostic, prioritising training in open-source tools and platforms. The following table includes the platforms and tools used:

• Cybersecurity frameworks: NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27000 family, CIS Controls, and FAIR (Factor Analysis of Information Risk)
• Cyber Intelligence frameworks and tools: MISP, STIX/TAXII, MITRE ATT&CK, OSINT Platforms like Shodan, VirusTotal, Censys
• Network security-oriented tools: Wireshark, Nmap, Suricata, Zeek, iptables, pfSense
• Computer security-oriented tools: ClamAV, OSSEC, Sysmon, Cuckoo Sandbox
• Vulnerability management: Nessus, OpenVAS, Intruder, Nikto, Paros Proxy, SQLMap
• Event management systems (SIEM): OSSIM, Security Onion, Greylog, Wazuh, Prelude SIEM, QRadar Community Edition, ELK stack
• Identity management and access control: Keycloak, Shibboleth, Apache Syncope, FreeIPA, Okta, Kerberos, Azure AD
• Security verification of software and web applications: OWASP ZAP, Burp, Acunetix, BeEF, Wfuzz
• Incident response and forensic analysis: TheHive Project, Carbon Black, Cyphon, FireEye Mandiant, EnCase Forensic, Autopsy
• Encryption and Cryptography: OpenSSL, VeraCrypt, Hashcat
• Pentesting: Kali Linux, Parrot Security OS, Arch Linux, Burp Suite, Aircrack-ng, Metasploit, SET, Faraday