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Master Security and Intelligence

Information Sciences for Security

Second-level university Master — 60 ECTS

Duration 1500 hours, 1 year
Qualification Master's degree (Second level)
Format Online · E-learning

Overview

Institution
eCampus University (Via Isimbardi 10, 22060 Novedrate — CO) has established, in collaboration with the National Register of Intelligence Analysts, the Second-Level University Master's Degree in Information Sciences for Security, pursuant to art. 3, paragraph 9, of Ministerial Decree No. 270 of 22 October 2004 and subsequent amendments, in accordance with the General Regulations for University Master's Programs. The Master's program has a duration of one year, for a total of 1,500 hours. The teaching delivery mode is fully online, with a computer platform accessible 24 hours a day.
Objectives
The Master's program, developed from an interdisciplinary perspective, aims to enable participants to acquire adequate preparation that allows them to increase their awareness of issues concerning national interest and its defense, in all its forms, in the face of the challenges of globalization and transnational threats.
Target Audience
  • State officials
  • Business professionals
  • Financial and import-export operators
  • Scholars and analysts of geopolitics
  • Mass media professionals
  • Private security sector operators
  • Researchers and scholars from the academic world
  • All those who wish to acquire adequate knowledge in the subjects covered
Admission Requirements
Admission is subject to holding at least a Master's degree, Specialist degree, or degree issued under the pre-Ministerial Decree 509/1999 system (old regulations) awarded in Italy, or an equivalent qualification. Those who expect to obtain the degree by the start of the Master's program may also apply.
Dedicated website
Further information is available on the Master's program website

Structure and ECTS Credits

  • International Law and Security Regulations (IUS/13) — 9 ECTS
  • National Security and Critical Infrastructures (SPS/04) — 9 ECTS
  • Intelligence Analysis and Information (IUS/16) — 12 ECTS
  • Unconventional Conflict and Terrorism (SPS/04) — 9 ECTS
  • Illicit Financing and Money Laundering (IUS/12) — 9 ECTS
  • Final Examination — 12 ECTS

Total: 60 ECTS


International Law and Security Regulations (IUS/13) — Prof. Renato Caputo

  • International Regulations: The United Nations
  • EU regulations on counter-terrorism
  • Overview of anti-terrorism legislation in other States
  • Italian anti-terrorism legislation
  • National regulations to counter terrorism financing
  • The modernization path of Italian intelligence
  • The relationship between Intelligence and Police Forces in counter-terrorism
  • The Recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
  • Classified documentation and State secrecy in the national security system


National Security and Critical Infrastructures (SPS/04) — Prof. Germana Tappero Merlo

  • The Information System for the Security of the Republic
  • Parliamentary oversight of the Republic's Information System
  • Economic and financial security
  • Critical infrastructures: threats and security
  • Fundamentals of business continuity
  • Cyber war, cyber warfare and cyber security
  • Overview of national and international cyber security


Intelligence Analysis and Information (IUS/16) — Gen. C.d'A. (ret.) Antonello Vitale

  • General theory of analysis
  • Outlines of security and intelligence in the contemporary world
  • The language of intelligence organizations
  • Intelligence cycle
  • Human Intelligence
  • Intelligence and technological tools
  • Open sources
  • Techniques and tools for intelligence analysis


Unconventional Conflict and Terrorism (SPS/04) — Prof. Vittorfranco Pisano

  • Nature of unconventional conflict
  • Terrorism and state sponsorship of terrorism
  • Negotiations and concessions
  • Endogenous and exogenous terrorism in Western Europe
  • Disinformation
  • Illegal immigration
  • Counter-terrorism


Illicit Financing and Money Laundering (IUS/12) — Prof. Paola Porcelli

  • Organized crime in Italy: evolution and current structure
  • Dogmatic framework of money laundering (Articles 416-bis and 648-bis of the Criminal Code)
  • Global drug trafficking; drug trafficking and money laundering
  • Italian and foreign organized crime in the drug trafficking sector
  • Drug routes
  • Counter-narcotics tools: Italian legislation
  • Undercover police operations

Upon completion of the program, having passed the final examination, the title of Second-Level University Master's Degree in "Information Sciences for Security" is awarded by the eCampus Telematic University, for a total of 60 CFU (university credits).


The Master's program was created through collaboration between the National Register of Intelligence Analysts and eCampus University, with the aim of strengthening the link between the academic world and the agencies responsible for information analysis and security.


Further information
Available on the Master's website
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