Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity skills are needed for to prevent, to detect the security and when the cyber-attack occurs also to correct damages. Study cyber security in practice. Learning of the future, independent from time and the place, using cloud service platform VirtualLab unique in the in scale of Finland.

The core of the engineer education in the cyber security is in the skills of the functional cyber security, in the form of action learning. You will have skills for preventing, detecting, responding, and in case of attack, mitigating the consequences. New kinds of skills and competences are needed in the working life of the future. The objective of the education is to produce modern high-level competences in the area of cyber security. Disruptions in the operations of our internet-based society may be fatal. You also become familiar with cyber security frameworks, standards, security management and can classify the vulnerabilities and the principles of protection.

After the studies, students can apply security solutions for discovering security threats and for protecting against them. You are also able to manage countermeasures against denial-of-service attacks.

VirtualLab is a virtual laboratory service running on the CyberLab data center. VirtualLab is now widely used in cyber security- and information networks education, as well as in RDI activities (Research, Development, Innovation). It replaces almost all laboratory work done with physical devices. For example, before a three-person student group had only a few devices to use, but now one student can have a multiple complete virtual ”worlds” each including over 20 virtual devices. These are called ”laboratories” or ”scenarios”.

The VirtuaLab can be used from Xamk’s own computers as well as from any device that has a modern HTML5 capable web browser.