Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece

Intensive Program in Cyber Security: Business and Technical Perspectives

Cybersecurity is essential, protecting all types of data from theft or corruption. Digital transformation and hyper-convergence create unintended gateways for risk, vulnerabilities, attacks, and outages.

The summer school will address the following topics from the technical and business-oriented perspective. More specifically invited speakers having an active role in academia and/or industry will discuss issues about (indicative):

An introduction to Cybersecurity Issues and Challenges
An introduction to Network Security
An introduction to GDPR
Human Aspects of Security and Privacy
Ethical Issues when designing and developing Secure and Privacy-Aware IS
Authentication and Authorization Techniques in modern IT environments
Business Continuity Management
Critical Infrastructure Security Issues
Cybersecurity Awareness Systems and Programs
Risk Management
Legal and organizational challenges in modern industry
Data Protection in Internet of Cloud
Privacy Impact Assessment Tools for Businesses
The role of the Data Protection Officer in the GDPR era
Privacy and Cryptography
Privacy in IoT
Secure Identity an Access Management
Security and Privacy Challenges in the 5g and 6g era
Digital Forensics and Incident Response Planning
Secure Operations Centers

Target group

The Summer School is open to young professionals as well as Bachelor, Master or early PhD students, who want to deep-dive in cyber security and learn how to turn this technology into business. This will enable them to become innovators in the field of cyber security, as designers/developers/policy makers and consultants in start-ups or larger companies.

Course aim

The summer school will include lectures, practical work, and excursions.The participants will have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge in cybersecurity through challenges, workshops, and lectures provided by cybersecurity experts. Part of the activities will be the participation of the students in mini-projects in order to better understand some advanced topics of cyber security. At the end of the summer school, the participants will also be requested to participate in evaluation.

Credits info

4 EC
Acceptance of transfer credit is always a decision of receiving institutions.

Fee info

EUR 1150: The Early Bird fee is available until April 15.
EUR 1350: Standard fee