FSS:BSSb1203 Intro to Cybersec. in SSS - Course Information
BSSb1203 Introduction to Cybersecurity in Concept of Security and Strategic Studies
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. JUDr. PhDr. Miroslav Mareš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Dušan Navrátil (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. JUDr. PhDr. Miroslav Mareš, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Lucie Pospíšilová
Supplier department: Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Tue 8:00–9:40 P51 Posluchárna V. Čermáka
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Cybersecurity (programme FI, B-CS)
- Course objectives
- The course is intended as an introduction into the cybersecurity from the point of view of security and strategic studies. Cybersecurity will be characterized in the context of general conceptualisation of security and strategy. Essential terms, actors, threats an policies in this filed will be presented.
- Learning outcomes
- Student will be able: - to understand cybersecurity issues in wider security context; - to use basic terms and concepts of security and strategic studies - to identify selected fileds of interaction between cybersecurity and security policy
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to the subject 2. Definition of cyber security in the context of security and strategic studies 3. Basic terminology of security and strategic studies 4. Cybersecurity research in the context of security and strategic studies 5. Information security and the emergence of cyberspace 6. Risks and threats in cyberspace from the point of view of state security and the risk of new technologies 7. The role of the state in the protection of cyberspace and the institutional provision of cyber security in the Czech Republic 8. Operation of state and non-state actors in cyber attacks and conflicts in cyberspace 9. Threats in cyberspace as part of hybrid warfare 10. Presentation of student works I. 11. Presentation of student works II. 12. Application of cyber security from the point of view of security and strategic studies (study visit) 13. Summary of the subject
- Literature
- required literature
- LOUTOCKÝ, Pavel, Miroslav MAREŠ, Jakub DRMOLA, František KASL and Jakub VOSTOUPAL. Cybersecurity Work Force Scarcity - Use Case Czechia: Lessons Learned, Lessons to be Learned. Jusletter IT. Die Zeitschrift für IT und Recht. Bern: Weblaw, 2024, vol. 2024, March, p. 257-266. ISSN 1664-848X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.38023/1cb4ea69-686f-4bcc-9bf5-540c8a3cfe07. Odkaz na publikovaný text výsledku info
- PAČKA, Roman and Miroslav MAREŠ. Achieving Cyber Power Through Integrated Government Capability : Factors Jeopardizing Civil-Military Cooperation on Cyber Defense. Journal of Applied Security Research. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis, 2023, vol. 18, No 3, p. 436-461. ISSN 1936-1610. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19361610.2021.2006033. URL info
- DANIEL, Jan, Richard TURCSÁNYI, Diāna POTJOMKINA, Tamás CSIKI, Ľubomír LUPTÁK and Václav WALACH. Challenges of Central European Security: Critical Insights. Online. Brno: Masaryk University, 2015, 101 pp. GP Special Series. ISBN 978-80-210-7772-0. info
- BASTL, Martin and Zuzana GRUBEROVÁ. Kyberprostor jako "pátá doména"? (Cyberspace as a "Fifth Domain"?). Vojenské Rozhledy. Ministerstvo obrany ČR-OKP, 2013, roč. 22, No 4, p. 10-21. ISSN 1210-3292. info
- MARTINOVSKÝ, Petr. Environmentální bezpečnost a klasická typologie bezpečnostních studií (Environmental Security and Classical Typology of Security Studies). The Science for Population Protection. Lázně Bohdaneč: MV – GŘ HZS ČR, IOO Lázně Bohdaneč, 2011, vol. 3, No 2, p. 65-80. ISSN 1803-568X. info
- Česká bezpečnostní terminologie : výklad základních pojmů. Edited by Petr Zeman. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Mezinárodní politologický ústav, 2002, 186 s. ISBN 8021030372. info
- recommended literature
- KLEINER, Jan, Jakub DRMOLA and Miroslav MAREŠ. How Are Czech Individuals Willing to Protect Themselves: A Comparison of Cyber and Physical Realms. Applied Cybersecurity & Internet Governance. Polsko, 2022, vol. 2022, No 1. ISSN 2956-3119. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0016.1322. Plný text info
- DOUCEK, Petr, Martin KONEČNÝ and Luděk NOVÁK. Řízení kybernetické bezpečnosti a bezpečnosti informací. První vydání. Praha: Professional Publishing, 2019, 270 stran. ISBN 9788088260394. info
- BJØRGO, Tore and Miroslav MAREŠ. Vigilantism against Migrants and Minorities. 1st ed. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2019, 347 pp. Routledge studies in fascism and the far right. ISBN 978-1-138-49380-3. kniha - open access info
- BASTL, Martin, Miroslav MAREŠ and Kateřina TVRDÁ. Politik der Cybersicherheit auf nationaler, europäischer und internationaler Ebene : Eine Rahmenanalyse (Cyber Security Policy at the National, European, and International Level : A Framework Analysis). In Lange, Hans-Jürgen, Bötticher, Astrid (Hrsg.). Cyber-Sicherheit. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2015, p. 45-67. Studien zur Inneren Sicherheit, Band 18. ISBN 978-3-658-02797-1. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02798-8_4. URL info
- KŘÍŽ, Zdeněk, Miroslav MAREŠ and Petr SUCHÝ. Sekuritologie: pavěda, nikoliv metavěda (Securitology: pseudoscience, not metascience). Obrana a strategie. Brno: UO, Ústav strategických studií., 2007, vol. 2007, No 2, p. 117-124. ISSN 1214-6463. info
- BUZAN, Barry, Ole WAEVER and Jaap de WILDE. Bezpečnost : nový rámec pro analýzu. Translated by Ivo Lukáš. 1. vyd. Brno: Centrum strategických studií, 2005, 267 s. ISBN 8090333362. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, seminars, homework, group presentations, presentations by professionals, reading
- Assessment methods
- - written works (essay, review, and report) (18 points) - presentation (6 points) - in-term written examination (12 points) - final written examination (24 points) Out of 60 points, you need at least 36 to pass the subject, + you need to have at least 1/4 points from each part of the exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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