In the second 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:

• Secure network infrastructure IT certificate (online certified IT course with lectures and laboratories)
• Basic concepts of IT networking infrastructure
• IT network topologies and types of networks
• Network hardware devices
• Wired network devices
• Wireless network devices
• Hardware (device based) security of wired networks
• Hardware IDS/IPS systems
• Hardware firewalls and network gates
• Hardware (device based) security of wireless networks
• Radius and Diameters AAA (authentication, authorization and accounting) servers
• Wireless hardware IDS/IPS systems
• Wireless hardware firewalls and network gates
• Commercial network devices and network security solutions
• Homologations, legal aspects and norms for network devices
• IT networking security norms
• Network devices homologation offices and legal regulations
• Specific legal regulations in a finance sector
• Problems with doubling IT networking systems
• Secure network infrastructure deployment
• Network infrastructure configuration and management
  
  
• Secure information architecture IT certificate (online certified IT course with lectures and laboratories)
• Basic concepts of information architecture
• General IT security software
• Firewall systems
• Antivirus and malicious software protection systems
• Operating system security
• Configuration and management of Microsoft and Unix operating systems
• Operating system protection software
• Remote management and security monitoring systems
• Operating systems network connection scanners
• Network intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS)
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) systems
• Legal regulations and certification offices procedures 
• Internet security systems
• E-mail security systems (including privacy and anti-spam systems)
• Web protection systems (HTTPS protocol and web servers security)
• Internet privacy protection systems
• Advanced mechanisms of identification, authorization and authentication
• Hardware and software solutions (including biometric security systems)
• Data security systems
• Secure data erasing, utilization and disposal systems
• Backup copies systems
• Data archiving systems
• Deployment of a secure information architecture
• Secure information architecture configuration and management
  
  
• Secure information systems IT certificate (online certified IT course with lectures and laboratories)
• Basic concepts of complex secure information systems
• Security of business and organization support systems
• ERP, CRM, BI, Workflow, SFA, BS, RTGS, HR systems security
• Secure integration of business support IT systems
• Distributed IT systems security
• Security of e-Services, e-Commerce and e-Business
• IT security models practices and norms
• IT security administration and management in IT systems
• Remote monitoring and management
• Finance sector IT systems security (e-Finance and e-Banking)
• Deployment of a secure IT systems
• IT systems security configuration and management
  
  
• Internet threats IT certificate (online certified IT course with lectures and laboratories)
• Basic notions of Internet and other IT networks threats
• Types of possible Internet attacks
• Passive attacks (eavesdropping, scanning)
• Active attacks (passwords breaking, phishing, spoofing and masquerading, services blocking, bombarding, unauthorized remote access, session hijacking)
• Popular hacking tools
• Hacking tools for decryption, password breaking, ports scanning, eavesdropping, phishing, spoofing, remote accessing (Trojan horses), breaking into wireless networks, breaking VoIP Internet telephony security measures
• Malicious software
• Viruses (viral software), Internet Works, rootkits, Trojan horses and backdoors
• Advertising and spying software
• Loggers, dialers, malicious plug-ins and key loggers
• Case studies
• Hacking and cracking cases
• Spam cases
  
  
• Quantum cryptography IT certificate (online certified IT course with lectures and exercises)
• New IT security paradigm
• Independence on classical cryptography
• Asymmetrical (public-key) cryptography threatened by quantum computers
• Unconditional security of quantum cryptography
• Vernam or one-time pad (OTP) cipher
• Quantum key distribution (QKD) schemes
• The authentication problem and the quantum key growth or expansion (QKG or QKE) schemes
• Quantum cryptography protocols not using quantum entaglement
• BB84 (Bennett, Brassard 1984) and B91 (Bennet 1991) quantum cryptography protocols and their modifications
• Quantum key sifting procedures
• Quantum key distilling procedures
• Eavesdropping detection procedures
• BB84, B91 protocols and other modified quantum cryptographic schemes with no entanglement practical implementations
• Quantum cryptography protocols using quantum entaglement
• E92 (Ekert 1992) quantum cryptography protocol and its later modifications
• Quantum key sifting procedures
• Quantum key distilling procedures
• Eavesdropping detection procedures
• E92 protocol and other modified quantum cryptographic schemes with entanglement practical implementations
• Quantum channels and decoherence
• Models of quantum cryptosystems
• Quantum cryptography applications and QKD implementations
• MagiQ, idQuantique, NEC, Sequant companies
• Quantum cryptographic scientific laboratories
• Deployment of quantum cryptography (quantum key distribution schemes)
• Hardware and software configuration and QKD systems management
  
  
• Legal aspects of IT security IT certificate (online certified IT course with lectures and exercises)
• Risk management
• Confidentiality of information
• European legal regulations towards confidentiality analysis
• Listing of confidential information types due to legal regulations
• European legal regulations towards electronic communication sector
• Legal acts analysis
• European legal regulations towards telecommunication sector
• Legal acts affecting telecommunication market analysis
• Issues connected to concessions and frequency spectrum bands licenses
• Private data protection
• European legal acts on private date protection (security of processing, limits in publication, etc.)
• Private data protection in context of IT systems and IT security
• Homologations
• European homologations legal regulations analysis
• Certification and PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) hierarchy
• European legal regulations towards digital signature
• National PKI Certification Center
• Euro-Lex database IT legal acts analysis
• Security norms analysis
• SLA (Service Level Agreement) legal issues
• Warranties connected issues and legal regulations