As part of the XVIII International Informatics Convention and Fair 2022, Raydel Montesino Perurena, rector and professor at the University of Informatics Sciences (UCI), explained today the perspectives regarding Cybersecurity Engineering, a new higher education option that began his first course last year.
During a conference at the XV Ibero-American Seminar on Information Technology Security, he stated that the career is planned for a four-year daytime course, made up of nine disciplines and 3,400 hours of classes.
The program, he commented, is divided into units of knowledge that include organizational security, data, software, connections, systems, associations with human resources and related social aspects.
As a profession, its objective is the design, implementation, monitoring, maintenance and continuous improvement of the measures necessary to preserve the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, as well as the protection of related technologies.
The career has a broad profile, curricular flexibility, the possibility of articulation with the postgraduate course, essentiality in the contents of the disciplines and links with employer organizations, he assured.
Among his subjects are Mathematics, Technological Infrastructures, Software Design and Programming, Technological Security, and labor practices as an integrating discipline of the career.
We intend to open this possibility in other universities in the country, with the flexibility to modify or add content to each curriculum according to the characteristics of the region, he added.
According to Montesino Peruena, the world panorama requires engineers and specialists in this field, with a deficit of more than three million professionals, where the area of Latin America and the Caribbean covers half a million and demonstrates the importance of working on teaching curricula related.
The UCI has a short-cycle higher technical course in Network Administration and Information Security, with high demand, as well as a postgraduate specialty in Information Security, so the continuity of studies is guaranteed, he stressed.
