The program focuses on the offensive and defensive aspects of technology, as well as the analysis of human behavior and its social environment in virtual space.
With the aim of generating a culture of cybersecurity, a multidisciplinary team of academics from the Universidad Católica del Norte (UCN) is promoting for the second consecutive year the Minor in Cybersecurity Facing the Challenges of Digital Adoption, aimed at students from Antofagasta and Coquimbo.
Due to the nature of human interaction, the minor seeks to understand these processes in a more integrated way through multidisciplinarity, providing participants with tools to identify possible threats and respond to them.
“The first thing to understand is that technology is advancing and, therefore, the interconnection between different devices increases every day”emphasized Iván Jirón Araya, academic at the UCN Department of Mathematics. “For this reason, it is important to create protection systems, since there are more possibilities for developing communications or interconnection”. In this sense, the academic comments on the need for a cybersecurity culture: “We seek that the student, without being a professional who was trained in this subject, has the knowledge to protect himself and to navigate in this cyberspace”said Jirón.
TOOLS
Students who take part in this program will acquire various tools and skills to assess risk, that is, “They will be able to identify the risks that exist, they will detect vulnerabilities and they will begin to develop a culture of cybersecurity, where they will be able to design strategies on how to protect information, for example; or defense, since the program also addresses the existing laws and regulations on this matter. Likewise, they will learn to use software and tools that allow them to monitor any type of abnormal activity.”indicated the academic.
The program has 20 places and, depending on the need, will be carried out online and/or in person, since it has academics from Antofagasta and Coquimbo. In this way, it will contribute to complementary training for graduate profiles with the objective of providing basic tools and principles of cybersecurity so that students can react to security risks in daily and professional life inside and outside the virtual space.
Students interested in applying for this program have until June 28. It is important to remember that this minor is taught every second semester of each year.
