In the first semester of the EITCA-S IT Security Certificate programme there are contained 6 IT certified courses of altogether 90 hours, with a following IT training coverage:

• Cryptography and cryptoanalysis IT certificate (online certified IT course with lectures and laboratories)
• Fundamental definitions in cryptography (confidentiality, authenticity, authorization, integrity, encoding and decoding, key)
• Basic techniques for encoding and decoding
• Permutation and translation ciphers (matrix ciphers) and codes
• Hash functions
• Cryptology theory
• Cryptography, cryptoanalysis and steganography theories
• Cryptographic systems
• Assymetrical and symmetrical cryptosystems
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and digital signature
• Private key distribution problems and introduction to quantum cryptography
• Algorithmic implementations of cryptography (cryptographic algorithms)
• Asymmetrical cryptography algorithms: RSA, DH
• Symmetrical cryptography algorithms: DES, IDEA, RC5, 3DES, AES (Rijndael)
• Authorization and authentication problems and solutions
• Implementations of password and biometrical security systems
  

IT networks security IT certificate (online certified IT course with lectures and laboratories)

• Network topology, packets, links, session
• Models of network communication (packets commutation, links commutation
• Different types of networks topologies and technologies
• Topological networks models (rings, stars, P2P, mixed) 
• Wired networks (LAN, WAN, MAN), technologies and devices
• Wireless networks (telecommunication and IT industries), technologies and devices
• Techniques for link access control
• Network devices and their security
• Fundamental theoretical ISO/OSI model of network communication
• Abstraction layers in ISO/OSI and their security
• Internet security
• Packets commutation and routing (logical links for packets)
• Internet networking layer protocols (IPv4, IPv6)
• Internet transport layer protocols (TCP, UDP)
• IT security protocols
• Internet security protocols (IPSec and SSL)
  
  

e-Commerce IT security IT certificate (online certified IT course with lectures and exercises)

• Professional security audit
• Common practices for interviewing and auditing
• Practices in professional IT security auditing in organization
• Fundamental IT logical layers (infrastructure, architecture and IT systems)
• Definition of information privileges and threats in layers
• IT security policy
• Formalization of norms and common practices
• Formalization of information flow inside of an organization
• High level modeling languages for workflows (UML, BPMN)
• Applied cryptography
• Usage and applications of asymmetrical (public-key) cryptography
• Usage and applications of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Usage and applications of symmetrical (private-key) cryptography
• Security of e-Finance and e-Banking (bank and financial IT systems)
• Threats for e-Finance and e-Banking sectors
• e-Finance and e-Banking security domains and protocols stacks
• Device level security systems (hardware IT security)
• Logical level security systems (software IT security, protocols)
  
   

Theory of information security IT certificate (online certified IT course with lectures and exercises)

• Introduction to Shannon’s information and communication theory
• Message and messages source
• Communication channel
• Information unit (bits, hartleys, bins)
• Information meause (entropy)
• Introduction to graph theory
• Introduction to conditional probability
• Bayes theorem
• Random numbers and pseudorandomness
• Introduction to coding (encoding and encryption)
• Information codes types
• Humming codes
• Information and data compression (with loss and without loss)
• Shannon’s theorems in information theory
• Definition of channels without and with information loss
• Errors in information and loss of messages integrity
• Error correcting schemes and procedures
• Introduction to complexity theory
• Mathematical problems classes (e.g. non-polynomial NP and polynomial P)
• Algorithms
• Asymmetrical cryptography (public-key cryptosystems) context
• Computational models and information theory
• Touring machine and state automata (deterministic and indeterministic) 
• Bool algebra and classical circuits theory
• Probabilistic computational model
• Introduction to quantum computational model
• Aspects of quantum threat for asymmetrical cryptography
  
   

Quantum information processing security applications IT certificate (online certified IT course with lectures and exercises)

• Introduction to quantum mechanics
• Quantum mechanics postulates and formalism
• New quantum paradigm of information
• Quantum information state
• Quantum messages source
• Quantum unit of information (qubit)
• Quantum entaglement and its measure
• Quantum measurement
• The EPR paradox and violation of Bell inequalities
• Realism and localism assumptions
• Analysis of EPR paradox and Bell inequalities
• Quantum circuits theory
• Quantum gates, universality and reversibility
• Quantum algorithms implementation (exponential gain)
• New quantum aspects of IT security
• Shor factorization algorithm
• No-cloning, no-deleting and no-broadcasting theorems
• Introduction to quantum key distribution schemes (QKD)
• Perspectives for practical implementation of quantum computers
• Technologies of quantum computers implementations
• Problems with decoherence (quantum information noise)
  
  

Administration and security management in Microsoft systems IT certificate (online certified IT course with lectures and laboratories)

• Issues connected to secure installation and patching routines
• User accounts and authorization
• User groups and privileges
• Authorization and user authentication mechanisms
• System configuration
• Hardware IT devices configuration
• Network configuration (protocols, services, built-in firewall system)
• Remote management configuration
• Configuration of a network domain
• Active directory system configuration
• IIS (Internet Information Services) configuration
• IIS security routines
• IIS monitoring subsystems
• Management of IIS services
• Hard disks and memory management
• NTFS file system management and configuration
• Sharing resources
• Setting privileges
• Configuring compression subsystems
• Operating system security configuration and management
• System management console
• System archiving and system recovery tools and mechanisms
• Failure situations