1. Master Specialisation in Cyber security
Erik Poll
Digital Security Group
Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (ICIS)

2. Why study computer security/cyber security?
Interesting and hot topic, with excellent job opportunities
Real impact in everyday life & society
Opportunities for multidisciplinary research
And why study it here in Nijmegen?
Leading research group in computer security in the Netherlands
Broad range of research, from theoretical to practical

3. Organisation & Practicalities
The Master is taught together with TU Eindhoven
Previously also with UTwente, as
Courses in Nijmegen and Eindhoven
You have to at least take 3 obligatory courses in Eindhoven
To reduce travel hassle
Courses scheduled on the same day and not in the first 2 hours
Some courses via tele-lecturing
Minimal travel hassle over 2 years: 1 quarter going to Eindhoven twice a week (for 2 mandatory courses, on same day); the 3rd mandatory course is tele-lectured.

4. Topics that you study Security protocols Cryptography
Software security
Network security
Organisational aspects of computer security
Privacy
Hardware security – esp. smartcards and RFID
Legal aspects of computer security

5. Programme 6 mandatory courses (30 EC)
Seminar: Privacy Seminar at RU (or IST Seminar at TUE)
Electives - choice from 6 optional security courses
Free choice
Computer Science & Society (3EC)
plus
Research internship (15EC)
Master thesis (30 EC)

6. Specialisation-specific courses
Mandatory
At RU
Software Security
Security in Organisations
Advanced Network Security
Privacy Seminar
At TUE
Cryptography
Principles of Data Protection
Verification of Security Protocols
Optional
Law in Cyberspace
Hardware Security
Cryptographic Engineering
Physical Aspects of Computer Security
Applied Cryptography
Hacker’s Hut

7. Some of the researchers
Lejla Batina
side channel analysis
lightweight crypto
Bart Jacobs
identity management
quantum logics
Erik Poll
software security
smartcards
payment systems
Peter Schwabe
high-speed crypto
post-quantum crypto
Joeri de Ruiter
security protocols
protocol analysis
Jaap Henk Hoepman
privacy
Internet of Things
identity management
Mireille Hildebrandt
legal aspects of
security, privacy
and profiling

8. Industry connections Joan Daemen symmetric crypto Also works at
ST Microelectronics
Eric Verheul
e-id solutions
organizational aspects of security
Also works at keycontrols

9. Master thesis project outside the university?

10. general consultancy companies
security evaluation labs and other companies specialising in IT security
any IT company
hardware manufacturers
software companies
network providers
any organisation that relies on ICT
banks
branches of government
NCSC, Police Team High Tech Crime,...
critical infrastructures: electricity, water, railways,...

11. Side-channel analysis & cryptographic engineering
Side-channel analysis and countermeasures,
engineering resilient implementations
post-quantum cryptography
RECENT VOORBEELD SIDE CHANNEL
Joost Rijneveld Implementing SPHINCS with restricted memory.
Prestented at PKC 2015,Taiwan

12. Identity management
Hans Harmannij, Polymorphic Pseudonymization in Educational Identity Federations
Did his MSc thesis at SURFNet
Won the €2000 Joop Bautz award for best MSc thesis in Information Security

13. Security testing of protocols and software
Patrick Verleg, Inferring SSH state machines using protocol state fuzzing Joined Deloitte
Arturo Cedillo Torres & Brinio Hond. Fuzzing the GSM protocol
Presented at Essos They both joined KPMG

14. Applied security analysis
Tim Cooijmans. Cryptographic Key Storage and TEE on Android
At SNS bank.
Safet Acifovic, Security analysis of Payleven mobile point-of-sale platform At university. Joined Ernst & Young
Kevin Valk, Comprehensive security analysis of a toys-to-life game
At a company in the USA

15. Thesis topics: legal aspects & privacy

16. More info? TRU/e Master: info at http://true-security.nl
Peter Schwabe is the contact person for the Master
specialisation in security
Pre-master programme?
If you have done HBO or other bachelor than computer science:
contact study advisors Perry Groot