DATA & SECURITY
Course Dates: 30 June to 4 July 2025
Course Venue: School of Telecommunications Engineering, Building B, Classroom B-223
Contact Hours: 20
Course Directors: Ernestina Mensalvas & Víctor Villagrá
PART I: Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is about balancing risks and opportunities in cyberspace, the global interconnection of digital networks. Cybersecurity is designed to protect digital property, personal information, and business transactions from accidents, errors, and deliberate attacks. The course introduces students to the cybersecurity field, its uses and raison d'être.
PART II: Data Analysis
Extracting the value that can be hidden in data to support decision-making processes is hugely important today. Challenges include analysis, capture, data curation, search, sharing, storage, transfer, visualization, querying, updating and information privacy. The course will review the different phases of the project to extract knowledge from databases with special emphasis on the extraction of predictive models.
Key course takeaways:
- Introduction to the major topics of the four cybersecurity areas
- Deeper understanding of cybersecurity areas: cybersecurity governance, cybersecurity threats and cybersecurity technologies
- Knowledge of data science concepts and terminology
- Knowledge of data science project phases
- Understanding of common data science problem types and problem-solving techniques
Student profile:
This course is aimed at bachelor-level information and communication technology students.
Registration deadlines:
- Registration: 30 April 2025