Cybersecurity KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Overview

The Cybersecurity MSc programme from KTH Royal Institute of Technology gives students access to all courses offered by the faculty in cybersecurity at KTH. The programme starts with mandatory courses providing both an overview of the field, with a course in, for example, ethical hacking, and a solid base in the fundamental security pillar of cryptography. Mandatory in the programme are also courses that put cybersecurity in the context of ethics, law, threat actor behaviour, end-user behaviour, sustainability, and business and societal consequences of cyberattacks.

Cybersecurity is not only a broad topic per se; it also has many application domains and junctions with other engineering disciplines. To explore this range, students choose freely among various elective courses covering different aspects of cybersecurity. Students can specialise in even more complex security courses or complement their cybersecurity expertise with experiences in artificial intelligence and machine learning, critical infrastructure monitoring and control, and user interaction design. The last semester of the programme is dedicated to a master's degree project where students work closely with the KTH research faculty within cybersecurity.

Career opportunities:

Career opportunities are plenty in the field of cybersecurity. Digitalisation is increasing rapidly, and with every new digital feature, the IT security of that feature needs to be ensured. There is also a vast security deficiency in older IT infrastructures running our world that were not designed with security in mind. Moreover, bottom-line security is a never-ending chase between attackers and defenders planning and reacting to each others behaviour, technical knowledge and deployed technology.