Professional and academic opportunities

Career opportunities

This master's programme equips you to work in roles such as the following:

  • ICT security director
  • Security auditor
  • IT security analyst
  • ICT security project director
  • Ethical hacking expert
  • Corporate intelligence consultant
  • Risk analyst
  • Secure development expert
  • Secure systems and networks administrator
  • Secure industrial systems expert

Academic opportunities


This master’s programme provides an introduction to research, allowing direct access to doctoral programmes at the university. More specifically, it enables graduates to carry out research, development and innovation in the field of Computer Engineering and IT Security in particular.

The doctoral programmes available at the University of Jaén may be consulted here