IT cyber security (MA)

Knowledge in the field of political science and administration covers issues in the field of:

• Cybersecurity places in the contemporary understanding of security
• The complexity of cyberspace security threats
• Diversification of areas of activities to ensure security in cyberspace, taking into account political science and legal, economic, and sociological approaches

On the other hand, knowledge related to IT includes:

• The principles of operation of the operating system, its tasks and weaknesses
• Basic programming structures and rules of designing programming scripts
• Functioning of internet applications and knowledge about basic weaknesses of internet applications
• Principles of operation of computer networks and weaknesses of protocols and mechanisms operating in all OSI model layers
• Principles and good practices of safe web application programming
• The principles of operation of cryptographic modules and the manner of their application in information systems
• Penetration testing process and the ability to describe each stage
• Standards of information security management

IT skills are:

• Efficient performance of tasks in the Linux operating system
• Designing a simple algorithm and creating its implementation in Python
• Conducting web application security tests based on the OWASP standard
• Analyzing the weaknesses of the computer network and applying a mechanism to protect against potential attacks
• Finding security bugs in web applications and applying patches to fix them
• Performing the required analysis regarding the application of cryptographic methods and the use of appropriate cryptographic modules
• Performing all stages of penetration testing
• Creating process documentation of an IT system and carrying out a risk analysis of such a system

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