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Course: 2025/2026

Seminar I
(12390)
Master in Cybersecurity (Plan: 325 - Estudio: 288)
EPI


Coordinating teacher: ESTEVEZ TAPIADOR, JUAN MANUEL

Department assigned to the subject: Telematic Engineering Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course:
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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Not applicable
Objectives
The objectives of this course aim to bring the most pressing problems and solutions in industry, administration, defense, and research closer to students through presentations and/or workshops given by relevant researchers and/or professionals in the field of cybersecurity. Through the presentations, students will gain insight into current trends, lessons learned from real-world cases, trends in regulations and legislation related to cybersecurity, the process and results of ethical hacking exercises in companies, among other topics of interest. The workshops seek to provide students with hands-on experience using specific tools employed by companies to protect assets and/or services and applications related to cybersecurity in various fields, as well as to practice other attack techniques, different from those covered in the other courses.
Learning Outcomes
Description of contents: programme
The objective is to bring the most pressing problems and solutions in every moment of industry, administration, defense and research to the students. Through the 12 proposed lectures, students can access the experience of 12 professionals of recognized prestige whose professional work is related to cybersecurity in its legal, administrative and managerial and legal facets. On the other hand, the more academic conferences put the students in contact with the state of the art in concepts, protocols, developments and tools in specific subjects related to the cybersecurity. Therefore, the 12 presentations can fit within any of the subjects of the masters.c topics related to cybersecurity. Therefore, the seminars will be able to fit within any of the subjects of the masters.
Learning activities and methodology
LEARNING ACTIVITIES Lecturers will give talks open to group discussion, interaction and practices. Lecturers are professionals to be selected from different Cybersecurity related to fields: Administration, Law, Army and Police, and Companies. Lectures (can be theoretical, practical or theoretical / practical) Individual student work TEACHING METHODOLOGIES The presentations are given with support of computer and audio-visual means and the bibliography is provided to complement the learning of the students.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 40
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60

Calendar of Continuous assessment


The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.


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