Our cybersecurity master program at TUCN (Computer Science Dept.) is named “Information and Computing System Security” (“Securitatea Informațiilor și Sistemelor de Calcul – SISC” in Romanian).
The SISC master program has been started in October 2015. It covers 2 academic years, providing 15 courses in the cybersecurity field during a 3-semester period, 1 semester (the last) being reserved exclusively for the dissertation preparation.
Its main purpose is to provide the students an overall perspective of the cybersecurity field, still let them take contact with specific, real-life cybersecurity problems, challenges, attack and defence techniques, tools and solutions.
The SISC master runs in a close cooperation with the Bitdefender company, a well-known Romanian cybersecurity company, having lecturers and lab assistants from both our university and the Bitdefender company. Due to this university-industry collaboration, our master program is very application-oriented. This means that, beside the theoretical background presented during the lecture classes, there are a lot of hands-on activities (during lab and project classes) and homework assignments.