Cybersecurity

Welcome to Xamk!

Xamk is a higher education institution offering studies in English in many different study fields. We have campuses in the towns of Kotka, Kouvola, Mikkeli and Savonlinna, located in the beautiful region of South-Eastern Finland. Students from partner institutions of Xamk are welcome to apply for the following studies.

If you wish to have more information about the content of the programme or courses available, please ask more! 

Departmental academic coordinator:
Kimmo Kääriäinen, kimmo.kaariainen(at)xamk.fi

Applications & general matters:
Sari Pieviläinen, sari.pievilainen(at)xamk.fi

Type of exchange

  • Exchange studies

Campus

  • Kotka

Application period

For the autumn term and whole academic year

1.4. – 5.5.

For the spring term

15.9. – 1.11.

Content of studies

Cybersecurity skills are needed for to prevent, to detect the security and when the cyber-attack occurs also to correct damages. Study cyber security in practice. Learning of the future, independent from time and the place, using cloud service platform VirtualLab unique in the in scale of Finland.

The core of the engineer education in the cyber security is in the skills of the functional cyber security, in the form of action learning. You will have skills for preventing, detecting, responding, and in case of attack, mitigating the consequences. New kinds of skills and competences are needed in the working life of the future. The objective of the education is to produce modern high-level competences in the area of cyber security. Disruptions in the operations of our internet-based society may be fatal. You also become familiar with cyber security frameworks, standards, security management and can classify the vulnerabilities and the principles of protection.

After the studies, students can apply security solutions for discovering security threats and for protecting against them. You are also able to manage countermeasures against denial-of-service attacks.

VirtualLab is a virtual laboratory service running on the CyberLab data center. VirtualLab is now widely used in cyber security- and information networks education, as well as in RDI activities (Research, Development, Innovation). It replaces almost all laboratory work done with physical devices. For example, before a three-person student group had only a few devices to use, but now one student can have a multiple complete virtual ”worlds” each including over 20 virtual devices. These are called ”laboratories” or ”scenarios”.

The VirtuaLab can be used from Xamk’s own computers as well as from any device that has a modern HTML5 capable web browser.

Modes of mobility

Exchange studies

The focus of studies is in cybersecurity courses. You can apply for the autumn term, spring term or the whole academic year. It is possible to complete 30 ECTS credits or more / semester. Language of instruction is English.

Course list for exchange students 2024-2025

Course: Optical Networks
Code: TI00BI37
ECTS: 5

Course: Pentesting
Code: TI00BI25
ECTS: 5

Course: Scripting
Code: KT00DN55
ECTS: 5

Course: Secure Routed Networks
Code: KT00DN54
ECTS: 5

Course: Secure web services
Code: KT00DN48
ECTS: 5

Course: Service Provider Networks
Code: TI00BI36
ECTS: 5

Course: Basics of programming
Code: KT00DN49
ECTS: 5

The Learning agreement or study plan should only consist of courses from this list! ERASMUS+ Exchange students, please use the Online Learning Agreement.

Responsible person who will sign the Learning agreements:
Kimmo Kääriäinen, Departmental academic coordinator
kimmo.kaariainen(at)xamk.fi
+358504347798

Xamk reserves the right to make changes in the detail of the curriculum. The changes might deal with the teachers, titles, contents, duration, depth, and timing of the courses. The purpose of the changes would be to guarantee the most suitable and flexible study schedule for the Students.

Course: Advanced cybersecurity
Code: TI00BI33
ECTS: 5

Course: Cloud services and databases
Code: KT00DN53
ECTS: 5

Course: Datacenter application delivery
Code: KT00DO47
ECTS: 5

Course: Secure enterprise networks
Code: TI00BI26
ECTS: 5

Course: Security equipment
Code: TI00BI24
ECTS: 5

The Learning agreement or study plan should only consist of courses from this list! ERASMUS+ Exchange students, please use the Online Learning Agreement.

Responsible person who will sign the Learning agreements:
Kimmo Kääriäinen, Departmental academic coordinator
kimmo.kaariainen(at)xamk.fi
+358504347798

Xamk reserves the right to make changes in the detail of the curriculum. The changes might deal with the teachers, titles, contents, duration, depth, and timing of the courses. The purpose of the changes would be to guarantee the most suitable and flexible study schedule for the Students.

Online Learning Agreement (OLA) for Erasmus+ applicants

As an applicant you need to prepare the Online Learning Agreement according to your home institution’s guidelines. If your home institution is not using OLA, please upload the fully signed Erasmus+ Learning agreement as PDF to your SoleMOVE application.

In addition to OLA you need to fill in your course wishes to the Proposed Study Plan section in your SoleMOVE application.

Study Plan for non-Erasmus+ applicants

Please upload the fully signed Study Plan as PDF to your SoleMOVE application.

In addition to the signed Study Plan you need to fill in your course wishes to the Proposed Study Plan section in your SoleMOVE application.

Proceed to application

Two application periods: 1.4.-15.5. and 15.9.-1.11.

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