The faculty of computer science and media technology offers PhD studies in information security. Information security is the study of controlling access to information at all levels and in all contexts. It can roughly be described as consisting of the following topics:

• Information Security Governance
• Human and Organizational Aspects of Information Security
• Privacy
• Incident Management
• Vulnerability and Risk Analysis
• Trust and Reputation Management (Soft Security)
• Identity Management and Authentication
• Security Engineering
• Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Security in Ubiquitous Computing
• Content Security
• Computer System Security
• Perimeter Security
• Communication Security
• Cryptologyvernance

NISlab

The information security group at GUC is the Norwegian Information Security laboratory - NISlab. NISlab is part of the Faculty for Computer Science and Media Technology. The group conducts international competitive research in several areas of information security, supervises Ph.D. research projects in this field and teaches courses in information security at the master and bachelor level.

Contact

If you are looking to pursue a PhD in any of these areas, feel free to contact any potential superviser or contact program administrator Stein Runar Olsen . You can also browse NISlab's own web pages which has up to date information on research activities and publications.