The master’s degree programme in Cybersecurity offered by Politecnico di Torino – one of the very first application of the education plan proposed by the European Cybersecurity Organisation – aims to fulfil the growing need for specialists equipped with advanced skills in the field of cybersecurity, especially since this deficiency represents a serious threat to our economic development as well as to national and European security.

This curriculum includes four different courses of study related to the distinct job title the students will obtain: Cyber Analyst, Cyber Designer, Cryptography expert and Cyber Legal and Compliance Officer. The four tracks share the first year of the curriculum, while starting from the second year the student will be able to achieve the expertise and skills in a particular area of cybersecurity by attending courses that will characterise his or her professional roles in the cybersecurity domain.

Cybersecurity is an extremely complex area that requires advanced technological skills, but also juridical, economic, and social expertise. The decision to offer a new master’s degree course is driven by the need to combine interdisciplinary skills in the legal-economic field with a solid technological foundation in the field of Computer Engineering. In addition to solid scientific and technological foundations, nowadays cybersecurity experts must also be equipped
with legal skills in civil law – for example the management of the General Data Protection Regulation, which is the European privacy legislation –, criminal law – to carry out forensic analyses properly – and they must have expertise in business economics, in order to manage a cyber risk appropriately, also from the economic point of view.

The students will become cybersecurity experts, a multidisciplinary professional figure capable of operating in the design, development, and management of the cybersecurity of complex information systems, in line with the most important
international standards and frameworks. From a technical point of view, this master’s degree course aims to provide students with the essential skills necessary to cover all cybersecurity phases: plan, protect, monitor, respond and recover.