PROMIS courses autumn -23
PROMIS – Customized courses for professionals in security
Professional Master in Information Security (PROMIS) focuses on information, data and software intensive product and service development security as a field. The field’s criticality for Swedish industrial companies and organizations is central as security concerns as well as data and integrity protection, are prerequisites for the modern connected age.
PROMIS is a joint project between Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) and several leading Swedish industrial companies and organizations. The goal is to supply customized, free courses in Information Security for professional engineers and software developers in the industry.
Applied Cryptography, 5 credits
Period: 2023-August-28 until 2024-January-14
Location: Distance
Rate of study: Part-time, 17 %
Cryptography is a collective for different methods that are used to modify data with the aim of prevent unauthorized access or modifications to it. As a result, cryptography is an important part of modern cyber security. During this course you will study the basics for different cryptographic methods. In addition, you will also learn how to use them in a practical way in order to increase the security for IT-systems.
Development Security Operations (DevSecOps), 7.5 credits
Period: 2023-August-28 until 2024-January-14
Location: Distance
Rate of study: Part-time 25 %
The purpose of the course is to provide students with an understanding of how IT security can be involved in continuous software engineering processes. The students will learn about methods and techniques to tailor security practices to the agile and DevOps product development context.
Security for Critical Infrastructure (Operational Technology), 7.5 credits
Period: 2023-August-28 until 2024-January-14
Location: Distance
Rate of study: Part-time 25 %
This course provides you with advanced and current topics in cyber security relevant to critical infrastructure. You will learn the concepts of critical infrastructure and information infrastructure, their threat actors and agents, their modeling, and their resilience. You will learn threat analysis skills for industrial control systems (ICS), including advanced persistent threats (APTs), exploits, supply chain attacks, wipers, and ransomware, which are often used in cyber attacks against critical infrastructure.
Security Inventory for Software Development, 3 credits
Period: 2023-August-21 until 2024-January-14
Location: Distance
Rate of study: Part-time 10 %
The purpose of the course is to show how security practices can be integrated into different software development processes (traditional, agile, continuous) and how to assess the maturity of the integration. The student will learn about different models, with a focus on a specific one touching upon security practices during software design, implementation, verification, and operation. In order to take different backgrounds and previous knowledge of the students into account, the course also covers the necessary background information on classical and security-oriented software development process models. The course enables students to assess the maturity of secure software development processes based on a model.
Software Security, 7.5 credits
Period: 2023-October-30 until 2024-January-14
Location: Distance
Rate of study: Part-time 50 %
In this course you learn how to address various software security problems in a secure and controlled environment. You will gain knowledge (both theoretical and practical) of various kinds of software security problems and apply techniques that could be used to protect the software from security threats. The course also gives you insights to understand the “modus operandi” of adversaries, which could be used for increasing software dependability. Experience with C/C++ programming in a UNIX environment or related is desirable.
Period: 2023-August-28 until 2024-January-14
Location: Distance
Rate of study: Part-time 25 %
This course provides essential theoretical and practical content for building trusted systems. The course will teach you how to create secure information systems to prevent data breaches and cyber attacks and expose you to the latest technologies and trends in trusted computing, such as encryption, authentication, biometrics, and blockchain. The course will help you understand how blockchain can transform the way we exchange value, manage data, and coordinate actions, and teach you how to use blockchain tools and frameworks to create innovative solutions to real-world problems.
Web System Security, 7.5 credits
Period: 2023-October-30 until 2024-January-14
Location: Distance
Rate of study: Part-time 50 %
Web application security encompasses that the student should learn to understand and discover weaknesses and vulnerabilities in web applications both on the server side and on the client side. The objective for this course is for students to understand how weaknesses and vulnerabilities can be used, how they can be discovered and which solutions that can be used to protect web applications and minimalize the risk of such attacks.