Modern information and communication systems and networks are becoming more dynamic, distributed, and complex, requiring proactive protection and rapid recovery to mitigate and manage increasingly frequent and sophisticated cyberattacks, which is especially true for critical sectors such as energy and healthcare. This is only possible with appropriate security services and mechanisms that ensure detection, protection, response to unwanted activity in the system and network, and recovery.
The main goals of doctoral research in cybersecurity are to increase the level of knowledge about new cyberattacks, to explore the latest methods and technologies for detecting, analysing, and preventing these attacks, for example, artificial intelligence-based security methods or quantum networks for cryptographic key distribution, and to develop new, more effective solutions, for example, algorithms, mechanisms, services, or security infrastructures, to ensure cybersecurity at various levels of the information and communication system and network. The narrower focus of research and development of new security solutions can be tailored to the doctoral student’s interests.