Note that you can at any time change into the cybersecurity specialisation: at UoI, just contact student service, at RU you just do that when you graduate. Be aware that for graduating you need to have covered all mandatory courses.<\/p>\n
If you take as an UoI student a course at RU, then you can ask to get it added to your transcript of records at UoI; however, it will there only show up as course taken at another university<\/em> and without a grade. (The universities are currently working on improving their IT systems in order to change that.) If you want a record of the name and the grade, you need to contact RU's Nemendaskr\u00e1 \/ Registry Slides presented at the meeting (updated just before the info event)<\/a><\/p>\n Video recording of meeting, only accessible for signed-in University of Iceland users<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n Slides from presentation at UoI (18.8.2025)<\/a><\/p>\n Video recording of meeting, only accessible for signed-in University of Iceland users<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n NOTE:<\/strong> For the Computer Science cybersecurity specialisation and for the previous year of Software Engineering cybersecurity specialisation, this course is also mandatory (but has been always correctly listed as mandatory).<\/p>\n Slides presented at the meeting (13.1.2025)<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n Dates: 4th and 5th of February 2025, University of Iceland NEW:<\/strong><\/p>\n It is now also possible to take in the University of Iceland Software Engineering<\/em> M.Sc. programme the specialisation in Cybersecurity: it has more focus on Software Engineering and less on Computer Networks. There is a plan to have an information event for Spring 2024, just as we had it in Autumn 2023 (see slides and video below to get an idea of the joint programme): <\/p>\n Note that RU has in the last three weeks an intensive course where students are busy all day with that course. These three weeks are typically in parallel to the exam period at UoI, but for UoI students it should be possible to take the three week intensive course at RU if they tell the teacher of that course at RU that they have to leave at certain days for exams at UoI.<\/p>\n Check the course catalogues of both universities for relevant cybersecurity courses, e.g.:<\/p>\n The UoI course catalogue should be stable now, i.e. we do not expect any new courses to be added or changes with respect to elective vs. mandatory courses.<\/p>\n Take the non-cybersecurity courses from your home university. Contact Jacky Mallet for info on courses at RU, contact Helmut Neukirchen for courses at UoI. Grades that you got from the other university do not automatically show up in the systems of your home university. Contact your home university (Helmut or Jacky) to get grades from the other university accounted.<\/p>\n Note that we at UoI added the cybersecurity specialisation also in the Software Engineering Master's programme (starting from autumn 2024): If you are currently already enrolled in UoI's Software Engineering Master's programme and want later to change into this specialisation, it is strongly recommended that you take already now those courses that are mandatory for the Computer Science cybersecurity specialisation at UoI, because you can expect that in the Software Engineering cybersecurity specialisation, the same courses as in the Computer Science cybersecurity specialisation will be mandatory (plus those that are currently mandatory for Software Engineering, such as SW Testing, SW Quality Management, SW Maintenance).<\/p>\n Slides from presentation for interested students (25.8.2023)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Video recording of the meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n In case of questions, it is best to talk to one of the persons listed on slide 2 of the above presentation.<\/p>\n Check in the course catalogues of both universities for relevant cybersecurity courses.<\/p>\n Except for the above cybersecurity courses, take the non-cybersecurity courses rather from your home university.<\/p>\n Teaching offered from NTNU (Norway, Gj\u00f8vik campus)<\/strong> -- Contact Jacky how to join these courses:<\/p>\n Any student can take courses from their home university. To take courses at the other Icelandic university (i.e. UoI student taking RU courses and vice versa), you need to be enrolled in the cybersecurity specialisation\/emphasis. <\/p>\n As long as student numbers are low, also students who are not in the specialisation\/emphasis take the courses from NTNU. Contact Jacky from RU for the NTNU courses.<\/p>\n The joint cybersecurity Master's programme uses the Frostbyte lab<\/a> for cybersecurity research and education.<\/p>\n The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation is funding University of Iceland and Reykjavik University in order to start the joint study Masters's programme and research in Cybersecurity<\/a>. In addition, the European Union is co-funding our cybersecurity research and education via the Digital Europe<\/a> Programme projects<\/a> Eyv\u00f6r NCC-IS<\/a> and Defend Iceland<\/a>. Eyv\u00f6r NCC-IS works together with the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC)<\/a> that is Europe\u2019s new framework to support innovation and industrial policy in cybersecurity together with a Network of National Coordination Centres (NCCs).<\/p>\n The funding allows us to hire professors, external teachers, further staff, hardware for a lab to do cybersecurity teaching and research, and to host events related to cybersecurity.<\/p>\n The joint cybersecurity M.Sc. programme of Reykjavik University (RU) and University of Iceland (UoI) The general idea of this collaboration is that students enroll in the Computer Science M.Sc. programme at the university of their choice and take the \u201cnormal\u201d M.Sc. Computer Science courses at their home university. Students who are enrolled in the Cybersecurity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":512,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3850","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":116,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6162,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3850\/revisions\/6162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}nemendaskra@ru.is<\/code> and ask for a PDF with a record for that course.<\/p>\nSpring 2026<\/h2>\n
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\nBy mistake, the course T\u00d6L605M Fundamentals of Ethical Hacking<\/a> was not listed as mandatory (and not listed at all) for the Software Engineering cybersecurity specialisation in the autumn 2025 course catalogue. We have corrected this just on Friday, 15. August 2025: please take care to enroll into that course (if have not taken it before): in addition to being mandatory, it is also a prerequisite course for HBV506M Secure Software Engineering that is taught in the following semester.<\/p>\nSpring 2025<\/h2>\n
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