Computer Science - Cyber Security Track

Cyber Security also known as Information Technology (IT) Security focuses on protecting computers, networks, servers, mobile devices, and data from malicious attacks. The growing number of devices connected to the internet and new innovative attacks from cyber criminals represent some of the biggest challenges for Cyber Security experts.

Some of the topics you can expect to study are: fundamental security design principles, IT systems components, script programming, cryptography, cyber threats, forensic accounting, legal and ethical issues, and others.

Cyber Security or IT Security professionals protect sensitive data for organisations from different fields, like banking, retailing, healthcare, education, social media, etc. As a Cyber Security expert, you are responsible for maintaining, evaluating, and improving the security infrastructure. Cyber Security specialists install firewalls, monitor network activity, back up data and create and implement security policies and procedures. If there is a web security breach, experts fix it as soon as possible and find ways to prevent future attacks.

Some of the skills you need to develop to become a successful IT security professional are analysis and problem solving, decision making, organisation and time management, attention to details, communication and creativity.

After graduation, Cyber Security students find work as cryptographers, information security officers, security engineers, penetration testers, forensics experts, security administrators, ethical hackers, etc.

1. The applicant must between the ages of 17 and 25 for bachelor’s degree, Diploma in Arabic Studies, or any other equivalent qualification. For a master’s degree their age should not exceed 30 and for a PhD they should not be older than 35.
2. Consent to study in the Kingdom must be given by the government of the applicant from those countries that stipulate the same for Saudi students.
3. The applicant should not have previously attained a scholarship to study in any educational institute in the Kingdom.
4. All certificates and identification papers must be attested by the authorities specified by the educational institute.
5. The applicant should not have been previously expelled from any educational institute in the Kingdom.
6. The applicant must pass a medical exam stipulated by Saudi law and the Ministry of Education.

A Service that provides a unified portal for submitting and processing scholarship applications offered by the ministry of education and its institutions to study in Saudi Saudi public university education institutions, with the aim of making the application process for scholarships for advanced students easier and more flexible.

• If you do not have an account in Study In Saudi portal, click on the New User icon Choose the type of ID required and complete the information
• Complete the required registration information
• Choose how to send the verification code
• Enter the verification code sent to the email
• A verification code will be sent to your registered email, After entering the verification code, you will receive an email to activate the user and set the password. Click on the set password link
• After logging in, click on My Services icon, then My profile to fill out the profile
• The information that was entered appears at the stage of creating the account, and the user must complete the other personal data, then click on Save and Continue
• The user fills in the contact information and then clicks Save

Note: You must enter your personal data correctly. If you do not have a Twitter or Facebook account, please write “None.

• After logging in, click on the Apply for Study Now icon to submit the application
• After clicking on the new application icon, you must agree to the terms and conditions for the scholarship application, select the scholarship type, then click on Save and Continue

Note: The internal scholarship is for international students residing in Saudi Arabia, and the external scholarship is for international students residing outside of Saudi Arabia.

• In the second step, you must enter the basic data for the application, then click Save and Continue
• In the third step, you must enter the qualification details, then click on Save and Continue
• In the fourth step, you must enter languages details, then click Save and Continue
• In the fifth step, you must enter universities details, then click Save and Continue
• In the sixth step, you must upload the required attachments, then click on Save and Continue
• In the final step, you must review all the application information and then click Submit

It will appear as a successfully submitted message after the request is sent.

In the My Requests tab, you will find your requests with the status.

The requests that were returned to you or were not completed will also appear in the My Pending Tasks tab, and you can delete them