Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Have acquired highly specialised and integrated knowledge and broad skills in the various disciplines of computer science, which come after those within the Bachelor's in computer science.
• Manage large-scale software development projects.
• Apply, mobilise, articulate and promote the knowledge and skills acquired in order to help lead and complete a project.
• Lead a project by mastering its complexity and taking into account the objectives, allocated resources and constraints that characterise it.
• Demonstrate independence and their ability to work alone or in teams.
• Manage research, development and innovation.
• Understand unprecedented problems in computer science and its applications.
• Organise and lead a research, development or innovation project to completion.
• Methodically research valid scientific information, lead a critical analysis, propose and argue potentially innovative solutions to targeted problems.
• Master communication techniques.
• Communicate, both orally and in writing, their findings, original proposals, knowledge and underlying principles, in a clear, structured and justified manner.
• Apply scientific methodology.
• Critically reflect on the impact of IT in general, and on the contribution to projects.
• Demonstrate thoroughness, independence, creativity, intellectual honesty, and ethical values.

Learning Outcomes of UE

- Basic theoretical and practical skills in secure software development (knowing what to secure, how to do it, when, and at what cost, conscience of user culture of cybersecurity,...)
- C language vulnerabilities and binary exploitation

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

This course covers the following topics:
- Cryptography
- Access Control
- Web Security
- Network Security
- Side-Channel Attacks
- SetUID and Integer Overflows
- Race Condition Attacks
- Memory Safety
- Assembly & Debugging
- Buffer Overflow
- Shellcode
- Stack Protections

Prior Experience

Basic knowledge of computer systems is a plus