| Code | 5600 |
|---|---|
| Academic Year | 2025-2026 |
| Subject area | Sciences and technology |
| Campus | Bologna |
| Level | First |
| Director | Marco Prandini |
| Duration | Annual |
| Teaching methods | Conventional |
| Language | English |
| Cost | € 5.200,00 |
| Instalments | first installment € 2,600.00 (to be paid strictly by 31/10/2025); second installment €2,600.00 (to be paid by 01/30/2026) |
| Application deadline |
Sep 29, 2025 |
| Enrolment start and end | from 16 to 30 october 2025 |
- Main Department
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering - DISI
- Professional Profile
- Pursuant to Decree no. 270 of 22 October 2004 of the Ministry of Education, University and Research, for academic year 2025/2026, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Administrative office of Bologna, will run a …-level Professional Master’s Programme in “Cybersecurity: from design to operations”.
The Professional Master’s Programme has been set up on the proposal of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and in cooperation with Crif S.p.A.
The Professional Master’s Programme aims to train an expert in the IT security issues of hardware-software infrastructures, responsible, in a corporate context, for the management of critical systems and the processing of information, with skills in the analysis of existing critical issues and in the design of solutions in which security aspects are integrated into the implementation process at every stage. - Note
- No. 2 places for students in excess of the maximum number are provided, subject to passing the selection. Such students will be exempted from paying tuition fees, net of any fixed costs and of the selection procedure participation fee.
For more information, please see Art. 1 of the Call for Applications.
Participation is open to auditors, up to 20% of enrolled students, in accordance with Art. 8 of the Call for Applications.
Interested persons must indicate their willingness directly to the Professional Master's Programme secretariat by the registration deadline. Acceptance of the request will be notified by 3 November 2025.
The attendance fee for auditors is € 2,600.00 (two thousand six hundred) (to be paid in a single instalment upon registration). Auditors do not sit the final exam, have no attendance obligation, are not required to do an internship or prepare project work, do not earn CFUs and are not awarded the Professional Master’s qualification in Cybersecurity: from design to operations. The Secretariat will issue a certificate of attendance stating the number of hours completed by each auditor.
There will be 2 excess places, with reduced fees (20% less than the registration fee) for Alumni (i.e. former students of the Alma Mater Studiorum) registered with the Almae Matris Alumni Association
On part-time Professional Master’s Programmes only, two places in excess of the maximum number are reserved for professional staff and foreign language instructors of the University of Bologna. Such students will be exempted from paying tuition fees, net of any fixed costs. Preferably before registering for selection, please complete the form available on the intranet page Measures for participation of professional staff and foreign language instructors in postgraduate programmes recognised by the University of Bologna. APOS will inform the applicants directly of the outcome of their request.
For further information, please contact apos.master-ta@unibo.it - Number of participants
- Min: 12 Max: 18
- Credits
- 60
- International Professional Master's programme
- Yes
- Admission qualifications
- - L-8 Information Engineering and L-31 Information Technology and Science, or a Bachelor’s degree in an equivalent discipline, where relevant in accordance with previously applicable regulations (Ministerial Decree 509/99 and old university regulations).
- Two-year Master’s degree and combined Bachelor’s and Master’s degree (single cycle) in accordance with Ministerial Decree 270/04 in the following classes: LM-18 Information Technology, LM-25 Automation Engineering, LM-26 Security Engineering, LM-27 Telecommunications Engineering, LM-28 Electrical Engineering, LM-29 Electronic Engineering, LM-32 Information Technology Engineering and LM-66 Information Security, or a Master’s degree or combined Bachelor’s and Master’s degree (single cycle) in an equivalent discipline, where relevant in accordance with previously applicable regulations (Ministerial Decree 509/99 and old university regulations).
- egrees in different classes could be accepted pending evaluation of the personal skills of the candidate. - Other requirements
- Basic knowledge in operating systems, computer networks, and programming languages C and Java is requested, which is implicitly assumed where candidates have passed the corresponding exams. In the absence of this, the candidate’s skills will be assessed during the interview.
- Selection criteria
- Selection based on qualifications and interview
Maximum score 100 points, of which 40 points assigned accordint to the evaluation of qualifications and the remaining 60 points assigned based on the evaluation of the motivational interview. Miinimum score 65
In the event of an ex-aequo, the person who obtained the highest score in the motivational interview test precedes; in the event of a further tie, the candidate who is younger in age precedes. - Selection date
- Oct 06, 2025
- Study plan
- Fundamentals of Security and Cryptography – SSD: ING-INF/05 – Professor in charge: Rebecca Montanari
- Network security and administration – SSD: ING-INF/03 – Professor in charge: Walter Cerroni
- Computer security and administration - SSD: ING-INF/05 – Professor in charge: Marco Prandini
- Security engineering I - Secure Coding - SSD: ING-INF/05 – Professor in charge : Valentina Ricci (complemented by workshop “Static application security testing - SSD: ING-INF/05 – Professor in charge: Andrea Pagani)
- Security engineering II - Web app security and testing - SSD: ING-INF/05 – Professor in charge: Giuseppe Porcu
- Security engineering III - Mobile security and testing - SSD: ING- INF/05 – Professor in charge: Alfonso Solimeo
- Security engineering IV - Industrial Control Systems - SSD: INF/01 – Professor in charge: Andrea Melis
- Security monitoring I - Malware analysis and detection - SSD: ING-INF/05 – Davide Ciandrini
- Security monitoring II - information correlation - SSD: INF/01 – Professor in charge: Federico Foschini
- Incident response - SSD: ING-INF/05 – Professor in charge: Luca Losio
- Cyber Forensics - SSD: INF/01 – Professor in charge: Alessandro Amoroso
- Compulsory attendance
- 80 %
- Internship
- The internship or project work takes up 500 hours and awards 20 CFU. In cooperation with the Master’s Director and partner companies, the students will identify a practical project in which to apply the notions learned in class (for example: analysis of the company security posture, mitigation from attacks, software development with security by design methodologies, etc.), to be reported in writing and presented at the final exam.