Cybersecurity

Help make our digital world safer

In the Security & development major, you study specific problems in the field of security and learn how to arm yourself against them. As a cyber security specialist you will be trained in the very latest technologies and techniques in the field of cyber security, cyber crime and cyber warfare. Cyber security specialists provide more security and privacy in the digital world.

This course program is actively supported by

• The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium, who actively delivers guest lecturers that inspire the student with realistic insighs.
• Cyber Security Coalition
• Enisa - European Union Agency for Cybersecurity
• Antwerp Maritime Academy
• Agoria - Cyber Made in Belgium
• IBM - World Tech Leader on Cybersecurity and Quantum Computing

Did you ever want to understand how a hacker works and to counter their attacks through reverse malware engineering? Are you interested in becoming an ethical hacker and help private and public sector organizations find their weak spots through penetration testing (system, web, and network)? Do you want to help fight Cybercrime and find the bad guys by conducting a forensic analysis? Or is your life’s goal to strengthen security in the industry by learning about Industrial Control Systems Security (OT)? Or do you want to understand cryptography and how it can be used to protect or attack (ransomware)? Data Privacy and GDPR provide you the essential knowledge on your way to become a Data Protection Officer (DPO). You will acquire thorough expertise in Information Security Management and threat modelling and intelligence. All of this and more is offered in this program.