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Defending a system or keeping it standing
Both programmes live in the same machine room and look at the same infrastructure. One attacks and protects it, the other designs and operates it. The levels differ, and so do the volumes. Here are both, with their real credits, supervised hours and fees.
The same infrastructure, two trades
Networks and cloud builds: addressing, routing, virtualisation, cloud computing, deployment automation, monitoring. You learn to keep a service running under degraded conditions. Cybersecurity tests and protects: vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, incident response, governance and compliance. You learn to think like an attacker in order to organise the defence. The two read better together, and each stands on its own.
The starting point expected on each side
Cybersecurity programme — Bac+5 level
Administering a Linux system, understanding IP routing and reading a system log. Without that, the first three modules stay out of reach.
Networks and Cloud
Networking basics — addressing, DNS — and comfort with the command line. The opening module assumes both.
Two engineering school programmes
| Criterion | Cybersecurity programme — Bac+5 level | Networks and Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Register | Master's degree | Bachelor's degree |
| Duration | 2 years | 2 years |
| Credits | 120 credits | 120 credits |
| Supervised hours | 1200 h | 1200 h |
| Teaching blocks | 8 | 7 |
| Weekly workload | 20 h per week | 20 h per week |
| Fees | 7 500 000 GNF per year | 5 600 000 GNF per year |
Two volumes, brought to scale
- Cybersecurity programme — Bac+5 level
- 1200 (50 %)
- Networks and Cloud
- 1200 (50 %)
Choosing with full knowledge
- You want to design and operate the infrastructure: networks and cloud is your ground
- You want to test and defend it: cybersecurity makes that its subject
- Your current entry level also decides: the table gives both registers
- Networks and cloud first, cybersecurity next, forms a coherent progression
- Compare the two supervised volumes: they state the commitment of each trajectory
What is left to know
Are networks needed before cybersecurity?
The prerequisite shown above states it. A solid network base makes the security programme immediately legible.
Is practical work done on real systems?
Yes, on dedicated environments reproducing a corporate infrastructure, with the same tools used in live operations.
Do these two programmes stack?
Yes, and it is a common trajectory: the Bac+3 networks and cloud programme opens naturally onto the higher-level security programme.
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