Name of programme                                     Information Systems and Cyber Security

Qualification awarded                                   Bachelor's degree in Computing Engineering

Field of study                                                Informatics Engineering

Study area                                                    Computing

Length of the programme                             3,5 years (7 semesters)

Scope of programme (ECTS)                       210 ECTS

Language of instruction                                English

Location                                                        Kaunas, Lithuania

Starting date                                                 1st of September

Tuition fee for Non-EU students                   TBC

WHY INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND CYBER SECURITY STUDY PROGRAMME AT VILNIUS UNIVERSITY?

The study programme Information Systems and Cyber Security aims at the preparation of professionals in information systems and cyber security who will have the fundamental and applied knowledge in informatics engineering and develop skills required for secure analysis, design, structuring and maintenance of information systems.

This programme is the first and only cybersecurity study programme in Lithuania. There is a considerable demand for cyber security specialists with higher education both in the European Union and international labour markets. In the future, the demand will undoubtedly grow due to: 1) tightening of the legal environment of a growing data and information security in the European Union and other countries; 2) a growing number of forensics and expansion of their scale; 3) the growing demand of the international enterprises and states to be better protected against economic espionage; 4) the threat of e-war between the states. The specialists familiar with the technologies of information systems security will be able to successfully compete both locally, within the EU labour market, and globally, in the world labour market. Today, the concept of ‘distant workplace’ has been embedded in European Union which ensures the possibility to work remotely in international enterprises. Such work requires specific education. Therefore international enterprises greatly value the specialists who have the skills of adequate specialization that may confirm their competences. Hence the given study programme would allow the students to acquire knowledge and develop skills that are necessary to receive the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (or similar) type certificates.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

The graduate of this study programme will develop skills in the analysis and formalization of information flows in a business enterprise; forecast and technologically justify the directions of the implementation of information technologies and work out an adequate instrumentarium; design, implement, structure, maintain and professionally assess the secure information systems and offer assistance and teaching to the consumers of information technologies; be able to understand and analyse the subject matter of information systems, the processes of their structuring, design, redesign (reengineering and reverse engineering) and realization; be able to apply adequate methods and means and effectively exploit technical equipment and software.

The graduate will be able to identify the gaps of incorrect programming, access the files of cyberattacks DoS and DDoS, know the Burp Suite, understand the security of WEB components – forms, session management, cookies, configuration of authentication; will know the security context of a particular operational system (OS), recognize the cases of phishing and understand the subtleties of session management and replay attacks.

S/he will be able to analyse the gaps in PHP, Java applications and ensure security in internal hard servers; to perform manual and half-automatic systems and software testing by identifying security gaps and security vulnerabilities; to employ the innovative methods and instrumentarium for the proactive gap identification, including reverse engineering; to analyse the IT problems, offer and apply secure practical solutions with respect to the IT cyber aspect.

The graduate will develop individual and team work skills in organizing the IT processes and act as their manager; be able to design and implement secure computing webs; will know the legal regulations of cyber security and be able to apply the methods of ethical hacking in practice.

S/he will learn how to organize work with the feeling of strong responsibility, individually and in a team; be able to maintain and develop the professional competence in the fields of Information Systems and Cyber Security through lifelong learning; be ready to efficiently carry out professional activities in an international context; be able to follow the social, legal and ethical standards when employing the fundamental theoretical knowledge in Informatics Engineering and in practical solutions, to understand computer architecture; be able to employ programming languages, technologies of providing information on the Internet, to design the information systems architecture and data bases, create information systems both with the use of traditional and modern mobile technologies.

NTERNATIONAL MOBILITY

Students can participate in ERASMUS+ mobility programme or Bilateral cooperation which give an opportunity to study at VU’s Partner Universities or do internship abroad.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Graduates of this study programme will be able to work as experts, consultants and information systems security professionals in government organizations and business enterprises of various size; information systems analysts or architects, programmers, testers, database administrators, project managers in the field of Information Systems; information security analysts; security management professionals or managers and IT security auditors in organizations. Graduates will be able to develop their own business initiatives, provide consulting services or carry out a qualitative analysis of information systems’ design and management.