Laurea Magistrale in Cyber Risk Strategy and Governance

In particular, the program aims at:

providing solid preparation in the areas of the cyber risk assessment to identify potential vulnerability challenges that might affect the functioning and performance of any organization
offering multi-faceted preparation with specialized skills to tackle cyber risks from multiple and unusual perspectives
developing a profile blending in-depth knowledge of technical cyber issues with competencies in the social sciences that enable relations with all levels of any organization, in order to influence strategic decisions and implementation of actions to mitigate cyber risks.
This MSc program is built to prepare students to enter the job market in firms, financial institutions, other institutions in public/private sectors as well as consulting companies, with two main profiles: as Cyber Risk Managers graduates will support tasks related to cyber risk management at organizational level in order to govern the enterprise risk by designing and implementing ad hoc strategies.
As Data Protection and Security Managers graduates will support tasks related to data protection, privacy management and compliance in order to govern risks on data. This job profile is explicitly required by data protection regulations in Europe as well as around the world.

This MSc program is built to prepare students to enter the job market in firms, financial institutions, other institutions in public/private sectors as well as consulting companies, with two main profiles: Cyber risk manager, Data protection and security manager

As Cyber Risk Managers graduates will support tasks related to cyber risk management at organizational level in order to govern the enterprise risk by designing and implementing ad hoc strategies.
In particular, they will be prepared to:

Identify cyber risks in complex organizations
Provide advisory services to increase awareness within organizations to both IT and non IT professionals
Support the design and maintenance of the organization’s processes and information systems
Contribute to setting the cyber policies of an organization to reduce the risk of vulnerability
Perform forensic analysis of information systems and data to identify cyber crimes or frauds and their origin
Lead data incident responses and data breach notification procedures at enterprise level.

As Data protection and security managers graduates will support tasks related to data protection, privacy management and compliance in order to govern risks on data. They deal with any data protection matters, issues and incidents and play a key role in fostering a data protection culture within the organization, designing and implementing essential elements of data protection regulations. This job profile is explicitly required by data protection regulations in Europe as well as around the world.
In particular, graduates will:

Design, advice, manage and maintain procedures’ compliance with data protection laws and policies
Conduct data protection and security assessments and develop and execute relevant project plans
Manage an awareness-raising program to promote a data privacy and security culture
Lead data incident responses and data breach notification procedures relative to data and privacy issues
Be the contact point for and cooperate with the relevant Data Protection Authorities when subjects exercise their individual data rights as well as supervise and advise on the response to such requests.