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Level 2 · M.Sc

MSc Computer Security

Security · Live · v0

Computer security fundamentals — threat modelling, systems hardening, applied cryptography, and defensive engineering.

Path type

Security

Requirements

Open entry

Enrollment

€19.90

Deadline

Next cohort starts 2027-09-06 (AY 2027/28)

Length

~1 year · 42 phases

Language

English only

Content freshness

Curriculum updated 2026-08-31 · content rev 4abb7df4

Cortex Credits (CC)

126 CC
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Syllabus

View the phase syllabus

0. Foundations & lab hygiene
1. The security mindset & threat modeling
2. The isolated lab range
3. CPU, memory & the process address space
4. Stack buffer overflows
5. Shellcode
6. Format-string bugs
7. Heap internals & heap exploitation
8. Exploit mitigations
9. Return-oriented programming & bypasses
10. Users, privileges, permissions & syscalls
11. Privilege escalation (Linux)
12. Sandboxing & isolation
13. OS hardening & secure configuration
14. Logging, auditing & host telemetry
15. Hashing & password storage
16. TLS, certificates & PKI in practice
17. Secrets management & key handling
18. HTTP, the browser model & same-origin
19. Injection & SQL injection
20. Cross-site scripting (XSS)
21. CSRF & SSRF
22. Authentication & session management
23. Access control & IDOR
24. Insecure deserialization & file upload
25. API & supply-chain security
26. Sniffing & traffic analysis
27. MITM & ARP/DNS spoofing
28. Scanning, enumeration & recon
29. Pivoting & lateral movement
30. Static & dynamic binary analysis
31. Anti-analysis & obfuscation
32. Incident response & digital forensics
33. Detection engineering & threat hunting
34. Vulnerability management & fuzzing
35. Secure SDLC & SAST/DAST in CI
36. Cryptographic & protocol misuse review
37. Blue-team operations & purple-team exercise
38. Red-team engagement (end to end)
39. Capstone
40. Hardening, postmortem & "What's Next"
41. Portal integration

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Enrolment prerequisites

• A verified account and admissions-committee approval.