This elective aims to qualify students for a broad understanding of IT Security.
The students will touch on different areas of IT security, which they can subsequently immerse themselves further in.

The goal is for students to gain knowledge of:
Crypto:
• Understanding security issues such as: authentication, privacy, integrity and non-repudiation.
• Understanding of security (attack and defense) in real-life IT systems and the role of keys, cryptographic algorithms and protocols.

Software security:
The student has knowledge of:
• What importance does program quality have for IT security in relation to:
o Threats to software
o Criteria for program quality

System security:
• Relevant security principles for system security
• OS roles in relation to security considerations.

IT Governance:
• Risk analysis
• Standards and organizations in the safety work
• Threats and the threat picture
• Operational considerations for IT security

The student can:
Crypto:
• Identify and describe what cryptographic mechanisms are needed to build a security protocol.
• Understand disadvantages related to the use of black-box security solution and homemade solutions.
• Identify and explain common security pitfalls in an IT system in a cryptographic context.

Software security:
The student can:
• Take security aspects into account by detecting and preventing vulnerabilities in program codes

System security:
Utilize countermeasures to secure systems
• Implement systematic logging and monitoring of devices

IT Governance:
• Carry out risk assessments of smaller systems / companies, including data security
• Assess which safety principles are to be applied in relation to a given context.

The student can:
Crypto:
• Analyze an IT system, and reflect on potential areas in which cryptography can improve the system.
Adopt a constructive and critical view of the security provided by a particular IT system

Software security:
• Handling risk assessment of program code for vulnerabilities.

System Security:
• handle units at command line level
• handle relevant encryption measures


IT Governance:
• Handle analyzes of which security threats currently need to be addressed in a specific IT system