This major may not be validated at the same time as the majors in “Cryptography and information security” and “Communication networks.” However, students are allowed to select elective courses from these majors.

Students enrolling in the major “Security and Networking” must be able to:

• Understand and explain different devices and protocols used in computer networking;
• Design, configure and manage computer networks while taking into account application needs;
• Identify large scale distributed and parallel applications, the problems occurring with these applications and propose solutions;
• Carry out distributed applications by implementing the appropriate techniques;
• Understand the characteristics of distributed systems: parallelism, synchronisation, communication, error and threat models;
• Use appropriate techniques, algorithms and languages to design, model and analyse distributed applications;
• Understand and implement mechanisms (cryptography, protocols) to secure networks and distributed systems.