{"id":1884,"date":"2021-02-12T16:07:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T15:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/?page_id=1884"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:28:09","slug":"hardware-security","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/en\/education\/masters-and-postgraduate-programmes\/masters-cybersecurity-science-of-software-and-hardware-security\/hardware-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"text-intro\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Hardware Security specialisation is run by the <a href=\"https:\/\/istic.univ-rennes1.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IT Faculty &#8216;ISTIC&#8217;<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.univ-rennes1.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universit\u00e9 de Rennes<\/a>. <\/strong><strong>Students enrolled for this specialisation complete a <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/en\/education\/cybersecurity-training-programmes\/masters-cybersecurity-science-of-software-and-hardware-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Master\u2019s Cybersecurity, Science of Software and Hardware Security<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14536 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/app\/uploads\/2024\/04\/istic-quadri-300x64.png\" alt=\"Logo de l'ISTIC et de l'Universit\u00e9 de Rennes\" width=\"300\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/app\/uploads\/2024\/04\/istic-quadri-300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/app\/uploads\/2024\/04\/istic-quadri.png 596w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"image-rounded\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"bloc-img\">\n            <picture>\n                <source\n                type=\"image\/webp\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/app\/uploads\/2021\/12\/deux-etudiants-400x225.webp, https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/app\/uploads\/2021\/12\/deux-etudiants-800x450@2x.webp 2x\"\n                media=\"(max-width: 480px)\"\n                >\n                <source\n                type=\"image\/webp\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/app\/uploads\/2021\/12\/deux-etudiants-1200x415.webp, https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/app\/uploads\/2021\/12\/deux-etudiants@2x.webp 2x\"\n                media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\"\n                >\n                <source\n                type=\"image\/jpeg\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/app\/uploads\/2021\/12\/deux-etudiants-400x225.jpg, https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/app\/uploads\/2021\/12\/deux-etudiants-800x450@2x.jpg 2x\"\n                media=\"(max-width: 480px)\"\n                >\n                <source\n                type=\"image\/jpeg\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/app\/uploads\/2021\/12\/deux-etudiants-1200x415.jpg, https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/app\/uploads\/2021\/12\/deux-etudiants@2x.jpg 2x\"\n                media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\"\n                >\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/app\/uploads\/2021\/12\/deux-etudiants-1200x415.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Deux Etudiants\" \/>\n            <\/picture>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"txt\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"bloc-txt\">\n                            <h2><span class=\"elipse\"><\/span><span class=\"trait\"><\/span>Presentation<\/h2>\n                        <p><strong>This specialisation focuses on IoT\u2019s ecosystem security (IoT stands for Internet of Things).<\/strong> Those electronic devices are prime targets for potential attackers. This option of our master aims to familiarize you with these IoT ecosystems with regard to cybersecurity aspects (both from the point of view of assessing the level of security achieved by IoT and learning good security practices related to it).<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"txt\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"bloc-txt\">\n                            <h2><span class=\"elipse\"><\/span><span class=\"trait\"><\/span>Training programme objectives<\/h2>\n                        <p><strong>The different courses offered in this specialisation allow students to discover the methods, tools, technical means necessary for the audit of embedded electronic systems.<\/strong> The key concepts of electronic architectures (hardware), interfaces with their external environments (Internet, Wifi, Radio Frequency Communication), embedded software and also vulnerabilities at all these levels, will be presented to students.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"txt\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"bloc-txt\">\n                            <h2><span class=\"elipse\"><\/span><span class=\"trait\"><\/span>Acquired skills<\/h2>\n                        <ul>\n<li>Understand the security of IoT (Hardware, Software) environments<\/li>\n<li>Be able to reverse engineer the software embedded in the IoT<\/li>\n<li>Understand security best practices for embedded IoT or electronics environments<\/li>\n<li>Know how to analyze the security of radio frequency communication protocols<\/li>\n<li>Be able to participate in the process of securing IoT products and ecosystems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"txt\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"bloc-txt\">\n                            <h2><span class=\"elipse\"><\/span><span class=\"trait\"><\/span>Study programme<\/h2>\n                        <p>Find out more about the courses taught in this Master\u2019s (their description, their teaching goals, the teaching team, etc.).<\/p>\n<div class=\"btn-shortcode\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberschool.univ-rennes.fr\/en\/education\/cybersecurity-training-programmes\/masters-cybersecurity-science-of-software-and-hardware-security\/study-programme-of-the-masters-cybersecurity-science-of-software-and-hardware-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check out the study programme<\/a><\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"txt\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"bloc-txt\">\n                            <h2><span class=\"elipse\"><\/span><span class=\"trait\"><\/span>Employment opportunities<\/h2>\n                        <ul>\n<li>Pentester or embedded systems auditor<\/li>\n<li>Cybersecurity consultant in the field of IoT<\/li>\n<li>Further study towards a PhD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5103,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hardware Security - CyberSchool<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Hardware &amp; Embedded Systems specialisation is run by the IT Faculty at Universit\u00e9 de Rennes 1. 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