Cybersecurity
Do you sense an opportunity in the rapidly growing job market for cybersecurity professionals?
Do you enjoy getting under the skin of computer systems, learning as much as you can about their nature, characteristics and behaviour? Do you want to know the motivations of cyber attackers and navigate the legal IT environment?
Do you want to study at a prestigious school that has its own Cyber Polygon and collaborates with top companies and leading institutions locally, nationally and internationally? Then the professional bachelor's programme in Cybersecurity is the right choice.
Unique in the Czech environment, the multidisciplinary three-year professional bachelor's degree includes a supervised internship and prepares students for immediate entry into practice, while those interested can continue on to a follow-up master's degree.
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Form | Full-time |
Duration of study | 3 years |
Graduate Profile
Graduates can work well as system and network administrators, security operations center (SOC) operators, CSIRT team members, junior or middle management in cybersecurity, software engineers of secure IT applications and systems, as well as training staff or assistant cybersecurity managers.
Where to go after this study?
A suitable follow-on FI Master's programme:
Graduate employment survey
FI graduates are valued in practice, with an average gross starting salary of more than 50,000 CZK in the last few years, according to a survey of all degrees. More on graduate employability
Meet successful graduates
Ondřej works on data security in mobile phones. His story is typical, he took computer science as a bet on the security of a good future job. And that's exactly what he got. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree before the introduction of the Cybersecurity program, then headed to London where he landed a job at a small company. Today, he works with more than 100 colleagues in Brno, where the company has established an office thanks to him.
In the study catalogue you will find lists of required and elective courses and a recommended course of study.
In the Cybersecurity degree program, students complete a mandatory internship of 12 weeks/480 hours in one semester. The internship is designed to expose students to the real-world aspects of operating secure systems and to learn how to work in multidisciplinary teams.
Involvement in research and development
Students have the opportunity to get involved in scientific research or development work within the FI research laboratories. At the undergraduate level of study, collaboration typically takes the form of laboratory projects or laboratory-led theses. Typical topics of such focused bachelor theses include evaluation of new procedures, implementation of prototypes, or participation in the development of larger software products.