Goal of Education: To help our students to be useful employees of the financial institutions or that of other enterprises either in the IT division – development, operations, or in the security, or audit departments, already at starting their career. The most important basics of information security and audit are extended with specialties of financial institutions.
Subjects: In order to help our students to begin their work as a useful employee in a financial institution, or in a related enterprise, an overview is given on:
- the challenges yielded by the new customers’ and legislation requirements in Europe and in Hungary
- well-known attacks, advanced persistent threats
- requirements to be derived from some of the most important best practice EU and USA methodologies & standards – useful hints in the ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association), NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), ISO (International Standards Organization), and other materials
- their basic notions – control objectives / measures, their qualifications and use
- the 3 pillars of operations
- the infrastructure of the information systems, and the security problems of some of the infrastructural elements
- secure application development
- business continuity planning and IT business continuity planning
- special problems, e.g. outsourcing
- some of the problems of determining an appropriate structure for the computer network of the institutions