Cybersecurity Awareness and Innovation

About this course

It’s not you, it’s me! What’s going on? This course empowers students, professionals and the wider community to deal with cybersecurity attacks and risks focused on identity management, and it is an introduction to the upcoming full course focused on cybersecurity awareness. It provides a practical overview of challenging issues such as identity credential management and security, e-mail threats and web impersonation, and web hacking. In addition to this, you will have a practical appreciation of innovation applied to these concepts through an interview with a renowned expert in fraud and cybercrime. The teaching staff consists of Iván Pau, UPM researcher and expert in usable security, and Román Ramírez, hacker and cybersecurity expert. Learning will be carried out by introducing use cases related to cybersecurity incidents, in a way that ensures participants to get really involved in the course. You will easily acquire practical skills and be ready to face real threats in a digital world. This course is part of an online programme developed by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (world-class tech university renowned for the quality of its education programmes and the research undertaken at its centres), Ferrovial (the world's leading private investor in cities and infrastructures) and EIT Digital. Ideate. Talents. Tech. Trust. EIT Digital

Course objectives

• to equip participants with basic cybersecurity skills
• to raise awareness of risks associated with digital identity
• to introduce students to expert perspectives in cybersecurity