Master of Cyber Security

Cybercrime is a key risk to businesses in all industries and of all sizes. With cybercrime increasing tremendously in the recent past, businesses are more susceptible than before to cybercrimes. Reputational and financial ramifications. This even increases the need for organizations and businesses to prioritize cybersecurity. The worldwide cybercrime cost continues to increase tremendously. Cybercrime has more ramifications other those that are financial in nature. Other nonfinancial repercussions of cybercrime include lost productivity, reputational harm, data loss, intellectual property theft, and personal or financial information theft. Cybersecurity entails a national policy issue considering that cybercrime could hinder safety, public health, economic, in addition to national security activities.

Saudi Arabia has remained a key target of cybercrime. The Saudi government will benefit from the program, considering its government has established a new authority pertaining to cybersecurity. This move aims to enhance state security, safeguard its key interests, sensitive infrastructure, and national security. Besides, the authority will improve the security of IT systems, networks, software and hardware components, operating systems, in addition to data as well as services, because of the progressively key importance of cybersecurity in the lives pertaining to communities.

The rising cyber-security risk has caused the Kingdom to focus more on its state cybersecurity strategy, considering that the nation is aiming at attaining its plan for vision 2030, which is purposed for diversifying the nation's security. Technology will be a key driver for the vision, and increased digitization of the state data will enhance the nation's vulnerability to cybercriminals.

The Master of Cyber Security Program in AlMaarefa University will focus more on appealing, qualifying as well as enabling competent state cadres, creating partnerships with private and public organizations and inspiring innovation as well as investment in cybersecurity aimed at contributing to accomplishing a technological rebirth crucial in serving the national economy's future. The growing cyber-security risk has coerced the Kingdom into focusing more on its state cybersecurity strategy as it is embarking on actualizing the nation's Vision 2030 plan, aimed at diversifying its national economy. Technology will serve a key role in the vision's facilitation, and the digitization of nearly all government information will unavoidably make it more susceptible to cybercriminals.

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
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• 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
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• 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.

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• In the third step, you must enter the qualification details, then click on Save and Continue
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