Bachelor's degree
Engineering
Networks and Cloud
The infrastructure everything else stands on.
- Linux
- TCP/IP
- Docker
- Kubernetes
2 years20 h/week
5 600 000 GNF per yearView curriculum
IHETC School of Engineering
Cybersecurity programme — Bac+5 level
Defend the continent's critical information systems.
- Entry level
- Master's degree
- Award
- Master's degree
- Duration
- 2 years
- Actual work
- 20 h/week
- Pace
- Compatible with a job
- Tuition
- 7 500 000 GNF per year
A hands-on programme in offensive and defensive security: auditing, penetration testing, incident response and governance. Practical work runs on an isolated lab, within a strict legal and ethical framework.
Learning objectives
- Map the attack surface of an information system
- Run a supervised security audit and penetration test
- Detect, qualify and handle a security incident
- Put in place governance aligned with international standards
Curriculum
1200 hours · 120 credits
Year 1640 hours
Security fundamentals
220 hours · 22 credits
Applied cryptography, identities, authorisations, threat models, secure architecture
Network and systems security
220 hours · 22 credits
Filtering, segmentation, intrusion detection, traffic analysis, hardening
Application security
120 hours · 12 credits
Vulnerabilities, secure code review, defensive development, interface and supply-chain security
Technical English and methodology
80 hours · 8 credits
Reading technical sources in English, writing and presenting an audit report
Year 2560 hours
Penetration testing
220 hours · 22 credits
Methodology, reconnaissance, exploitation, privilege escalation, writing the audit report
Incident response and digital forensics
180 hours · 18 credits
Detection, containment, eradication, restoration, evidence collection, post-incident report
Governance, risk and compliance
100 hours · 10 credits
Security policy, risk analysis, frameworks, continuity, awareness, applicable law
Professional dissertation and sixteen-week placement
60 hours · 6 credits
An assignment in an organisation: audit, compliance work, or building a security operations centre
Real prerequisite
What follows is assumed and will not be explained again. If most of it is foreign to you, this is not the right entry point — better to know now than at the final assessment.
Administering a Linux system, understanding IP routing and reading a system log. Without that, the first three modules stay out of reach.
Entry requirements
- Bac+3 level in computer science or three years of equivalent professional experience
- Good command of systems and networks
- Signed ethics undertaking on the lawful use of the techniques taught
Career outcomes
- Cybersecurity analyst
- Security auditor and penetration tester
- Security operations centre analyst
- Chief information security officer
- Compliance and risk consultant
Skills acquired
- Linux
- Networking
- OWASP
- SIEM
- ISO 27001
- Digital forensics