To advance from the first to the second year, the student must acquire at least 45 ECTS from the first year. The faculty may allow the student to advance to a higher year, even if the required conditions are not met, in the following circumstances: maternity, prolonged illness, exceptional family or social circumstances, participation in top cultural, sports or professional events. A student who does not meet the conditions for enrolling in a higher year may repeat a year once during their studies or change their study programme or course due to non-fulfilment of obligations in the previous study programme or course. It is not possible to repeat the second year because an additional year (absolventski staž) is intended for fulfilling the missing obligations.

The condition for the completion of studies is the successful completion of all study obligations prescribed by the programme in the amount of 120 ECTS. A student who enrols directly in the second year, after completing a university education or specialization according to a programme adopted before 11.06.2004, must pass all prescribed differential exams and full-time study obligations of the second year. The study ends with the preparation and oral defence of the master’s thesis.

Students of the master’s programme Cyber Security obtain the following competences:

• Understanding the importance of cyber security.
• Ability to identify cybersecurity threats and provision of protective countermeasures based on the security threats assessment.
• Ability to collect, select, analyze information and capability to interpret it in order to provide holistic problem resolutions, as well as challenges and incidents in the field of cybersecurity.
• In-depth understanding of the functioning of organizational information systems, components and networks.
• Ability to use various software solutions to ensure, manage, monitor and evaluate cyber security.
• Knowledge of established methodological approaches for managing the security of modern information systems and networks.
• Ability to search for sources and obtain data for cybersecurity management needs.
• The ability of business communication, teamwork and the use of information technologies for the purpose of ensuring cyber security.
• Ability to develop an organization’s information security policies and management systems.
• The ability to flexibly apply acquired knowledge about cyber security in practice.
• Striving for quality of professional work through autonomy, (self-) criticism, (self-) reflection and (self-) evaluation of the professional work
• Knowledge of legal and ethical aspects of data and information protection.

Students of the master’s programme Cyber Security will also obtain course-specific competences, which are listed in the individual curricula of the programme’s curriculum.