ICT Innovation, Security and Privacy (SaP) – (M.Sc.)

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S&P Major specialisations in the second year

High Assurance Systems - TU Berlin

Security and Privacy are the main aspects of what customers expect from IT-based systems. Moreover, customers need to trust the dependability of the systems, which in addition to confidentiality and integrity comprises availability and robustness. The specialization focuses on the interrelationship between security aspects and dependability, thus putting security in a wider context and exploring its role in this context.
High assurance is the main feature of IT-systems used in smart cities, and also a major aspect in embedded (or cyber physical systems). High assurance for critical infrastructures is also of pivotal importance for governmental institutions.

Network Security - TU Eindhoven, TU Twente

This specialization will look at security of networks in all their forms, putting emphasis on newer developments and special challenges arising thereby. One special focus will be emerging wireless and dynamic networks like ad-hoc networks, WSNs, or VANETs where issues like collaboration incentives or the absence of protection perimeters lead to new forms of security systems that may also become relevant in a future more dynamic internet.
The specialization will take a very practical approach to network security and include a mandatory hands-on lab.
Networked systems get more and more ubiquitous and diverse. They are applied in more and more critical systems now, including sensor networks, smart meters, industrial control systems, or the Internet. Especially incarnations of wireless communication and dynamic forms of networking like P2P or ad-hoc networks raise new security and privacy challenges. Wireless communication facilitates eavesdropping or denial-of-service attacks, dynamic networking like in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks creates issues about enforcing collaboration, data consistency, etc.. So a strong background in network security and its various forms is a highly interesting specialization for a security expert.

Information Security and Privacy - Saarland University

The need of collaborative information management and consumption from any location in the world using high speed connections on the one hand, and the requirements to provide information security and privacy in a mobile and decentralized setting on the other hand are contradicting interests at first glance. However, both have to be provided as one solution in the future.
We all deal with information in our daily life and many ofus provide sensitive personal information to systems like social networks, etc. Protecting sensitive information and providing everybody with the amount of privacy each individual is interested in, is one of the major challenges in our information driven society.

Advanced Cryptography - Budapest

Security and Privacy are very important for citizens and customers using IT-based systems. The specialization focuses on the general ideas, techniques and methods of Applied Cryptography as well as on the theoretical background and solid knowledge, putting security in a wider context. Security and Privacy is considered both from the technological and from the economical point of view, which supports decisions in many practical cases.
Applied cryptography serves as a base for most of the secure IT-systems (e.g. in Future Media and Content Delivery, Smart Spaces, Digital cities, Health and ICT-Mediated Human Activity, and Enabling the Internet of the Future).

System Security - TU Darmstadt

The EIT Action Lines research and innovate in the areas of complex networked systems such as Smart Spaces, Smart Energy Systems, Digital Cities, the Future Internet, etc. The aforementioned areas are characterized by an increasing complexity of the underlying ICT systems. More precisely, these systems comprise of a multitude of software and hardware components, which in combination form complex ICT systems.
ICT security and privacy needs to acknowledge the systemic nature of complex ICT, and go beyond a narrow and specialized focus. With the specialization System Security, TU Darmstadt will equip the next generation of security professionals and researchers with the necessary knowledge to master ICT security and Privacy in complex systems.

Applied Security - University of Trento

In many practical contexts such as Digital Cities or Smart energy systems Security and Privacy are seen by IT vendors as additional costs which customers are not really willing to pay for. Even in the framework of cybersecurity low protection mechanisms might be chosen to save costs. The specialization focuses on the challenge of guaranteeing the right level of security to an application that is substantiated by empirical evidence.

Summer & Winter Schools and Camps

All students take part in an EIT ICT Master School kick-off and a joint summer programme. Summer and winter schools support each individual study programme with a multidisciplinary and international dimension, and create a clear EIT ICT Labs joint touch to our education. A set of thematic oriented camps with integrated technical and business focus are organized in co-operation with research and business activities. They summer and winter schools bring together various stakeholders in our eco-system at EIT ICT Labs. Integrated competitions and camps on innovation aspects provide focused hands-on experience for our students, young faculty and post-docs.

Funding details

For the most highly ranked admitted students (as a minimum 30%), we will provide fee waivers. EIT ICT Labs has also reserved funding for scholarships covering personal expenses on the level of 9000 Euro per year and student, however a formal decision by the European Commission is pending in this matter.