Enrolled on this course as a Free Option and enjoyed it. Project is very fun and interactive if you are motivated to investigate, but its quite long. Lab classes are purely for project assistance.

The exam theorical component ist very looong, but I found most of topics interesting and easy to understant, even tough I'm not looking for the CyberSecurity major.

Without a doubt the most in depth and hands on project that we've ever done at IST :) If you are interested in Forensic Cyber Security it's a must-take course

Very cool project but quite a bit of work

Overall Impression

This was one of my favorite courses of the master's. It's fun, engaging and makes you feel like a real "hacker".

You’ll learn very interesting topics through hands-on, story-driven projects that simulate real-world cybercrime investigations.

Teacher and Labs

• The theoretical classes are taught by Professor Nuno Santos. I didn’t attend many of them, but the ones I did were well explained.
• The lectures are clear and useful, but after a while, you may find them boring and you can learn most of the theory directly from the slides.
• Only...

One of the best courses I had in MEIC.

I enrolled in this course because I’d only heard good things about it — and those opinions were right.

You learn a lot about cyber security, how to investigate a cybercrime, and what techniques hackers use. But I’ll warn you: the theoretical component is really long, and you’ll have a gazillion slides to study for the final exam. However, most of these slides cover topics from previous courses to give context and help students (e.g., computer architecture, computer networks, etc.).

The project is really fun and, in my opinion, not very...

CSF gives you the ultimate 'hacker' feeling in cybersecurity. The project is probably one of the coolest in the Master’s, where you follow a cybercrime investigation and have to find various clues, from hidden images/text in files to packet exchanges.

The project topics are usually current and meme-ish, which makes everything more fun.

As for the lectures, I think the professor is good, but a lot of different topics are covered (maybe too many), especially since the exam covers the entire syllabus. It’s not that the topics are uninteresting, but it can definitely feel...