Cybersecurity for smart ports & shipping organizations
Dates & Timetable:
Application for this micro-credential is closed for academic year 2024/2025 and it will be renewed in academic year 2025/2026.
| Date | Time |
| 28/11/2024 | 14:00-16:00 (CET) |
| 05/12/2024 | |
| 12/12/2024 | |
| 19/12/2024 | |
| 09/01/2025 |
Description:
This course builds the skills and knowledge required to enhance ports’ smartness with tools and methods tailored to the unique cybersecurity challenges impacting ports and maritime industries. It explores cybersecurity themes across all informational layers from their outer dimensions (CTI ecosystems, cloud infrastructure, public networks, on-ship & cargo security, port connected operational systems & IoT fleet) to inner ones (authentication, identity management, application, data, AI/ML security, future challenges with quantum computing) considering both threat & prevention/mitigation strategies and how to implement them.
Learning Outcomes:
- Setup cybersecurity strategies for port & maritime operations.
- Manage cyber threats & incidents.
Sustainable development goals:
- SDG9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
- SDG11. Sustainable cities and communities
If you need some extra assistance with the application, here is a step by step instruction on how to complete the application form.
Sector:
Coastal
Thematic area:
Smart Ports
Hashtags/Key words:
#IT #infrastructure #innovations #software
Volume (ECTS):
1
Language:
English
Hard skills:
Advanced cybersecurity ethical hacking, threat identification & classification Preventative & mitigative techniques, incident response
Soft skills:
Ethics Good Governance Risk Management Planning Critical Thinking Communication & Change Management
Study format:
Lectures, discussions, research, individual project work
Study methods:
Debates formal lectures hands-on lab tasks
Hours
Synchronous contact hours: 10
Asynchronous hours & self directed learning: 15
Entry requirements:
Bachelor student in one of the 9 partner universities of EU-CONEXUS, providing a proof of English proficiency of at least B2 level (certificate or online test).
Assessment:
Online quiz, individual project
HOST UNIVERSITY:
Klaipeda University, Lithuania
Stage of accreditation:
Internally accredited by the committee of the field of study according to the procedure in force at KU.
