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Information Security Technology

Program Qualifications
Programme Educational Objectives (PEOs) are the those describing what the graduates are expected to attain or achieve in their academic and/or professional life after a few years of graduation. In this context, Programme Educational Objectives defined for this programme are as follows:

(Please click on the buttons below to reach the PLOs as “Conjoined” or as “Classified” under the “Knowledge”, “Skills” and “Competencies”.)
(Below, PLOs are shown as key and sub- learning outcomes.)
(In order to see the Sub-Programme Learning Outcomes (SPLOs) affiliated to Key Programme Learning Outcomes (KPLOs), please press + sign.)
P1) He/she has basic, current and practical knowledge about his/her profession.
P.1.1) Defines the fundamental concepts of information security.
P.1.2) Has knowledge about computers and security.
P.1.3) Has knowledge about basic programming logic and data structures.
P.1.4) Explains basic computer architecture.
P.1.5) Analyzes current security trends.
P.1.6) Demonstrates the learned information with practical examples.
P2) Have knowledge about occupational health and safety, environmental awareness and quality processes.
P.2.1) Understands and applies occupational health and safety standards.
P.2.2) Evaluates environmental protection and sustainability principles.
P.2.3) Analyzes and improves quality management processes.
P.2.4) Evaluates environmental impacts and risks in the workplace.
P.2.5) Analyzes and improves quality management processes.
P.2.6) Develops continuous improvement and innovative approaches in the fields of occupational health and safety, environment, and quality.
P3) Follows current developments and practices for his/her profession and uses them effectively.
P.3.1) Regularly follows the innovations and developments in their field and applies them to their professional development.
P.3.2) Applies current software tools.
P.3.3) Addresses complex problems and generates creative solutions.
P.3.4) Has knowledge about current cyber threats.
P.3.5) Transfers professional innovations to their colleagues.
P.3.6) Integrates current technologies into their own projects.
P4) Uses professionally relevant information technologies (software, programs, animations, etc.) effectively.
P.4.1) Efficiently uses office and software tools.
P.4.2) Defines programming environments.
P.4.3) Knows how to develop algorithms and creates data structures appropriate to the algorithm.
P.4.4) Gains knowledge about current software languages.
P.4.5) Researches, selects, and appropriately integrates the required information technologies.
P.4.6) Can use software appropriate for current mathematical modeling and optimization methods.
P5) Has the ability to independently evaluate professional problems and issues with an analytical and critical approach and to propose solutions.
P.5.1) Analyzes a problem.
P.5.2) Establishes the cause-and-effect relationship of the problem.
P.5.3) Generates appropriate solution alternatives.
P.5.4) Evaluates alternative solutions and selects the most appropriate one.
P.5.5) Effectively manages and applies decision-making processes.
P.5.6) Reports the analytical thinking process.
P6) Can effectively present thoughts through written and verbal communication at the level of knowledge and skills and express them in an understandable manner.
P.6.1) Can write reports using basic statistical knowledge.
P.6.2) Speaks and presents confidently in public.
P.6.3) Can report computer and data science analyses and their results
P.6.4) Correctly uses professional terminology.
P.6.5) Can collaborate in teamwork by using effective communication and negotiation skills.
P.6.6) Knows how to use at least one of the MS Office tools.
P7) Takes responsibility as a team member to solve unforeseen and complex problems encountered in applications related to his/her field.
P.7.1) Explains the importance of teamwork.
P.7.2) Has knowledge about project management.
P.7.3) Works effectively individually and in multi-disciplinary teams.
P.7.4) Fulfills the responsibilities given within the scope of the project or task on time and at the expected quality.
P.7.5) Can effectively use online information sources, databases, and communication channels related to their field.
P.7.6) Proposes solutions to problems within the project.
P8) Has awareness of career management and lifelong learning.
P.8.1) Evaluates their own strengths and weaknesses.
P.8.2) Determines individual career goals and creates a personal development plan to achieve these goals.
P.8.3) Adopts the necessity of lifelong learning and continuously updates their knowledge and skills related to their profession.
P.8.4) Evaluates themselves, determines learning needs through self-criticism, and takes action accordingly.
P.8.5) Researches professional certification programs.
P.8.6) Shares learning experiences.
P9) It has social, scientific, cultural and ethical values ​​in the stages of collecting data related to its field, its application and the announcement of its results.
P.9.1) Makes decisions by considering social, scientific, cultural, and ethical values.
P.9.2) Follows ethical standards in data collection and analysis.
P.9.3) Applies scientific research methods and evaluates their results objectively.
P.9.4) Evaluates diversity and cultural differences, and respects these differences.
P.9.5) Develops and implements projects that are sensitive to society and the environment.
P.9.6) Complies with legal and ethical responsibilities regarding data privacy, data security, and intellectual property rights during professional activities.
P10) Uses a foreign language to keep up with current information and communicate with colleagues.
P.10.1) Recognizes professional terms at a basic level.
P.10.2) Knows a second foreign language at least at a level to establish social communication.
P.10.3) Gains oral and written expression skills in at least one European Union foreign language.
P.10.4) Gathers information from online sources.
P.10.5) Follows and understands professional literature published in a foreign language.
P.10.6) Communicates and exchanges information with colleagues from different nations and cultures.
P11) Explains and applies data security and encryption methods.
P.11.1) Defines the fundamental principles and purpose of data security.
P.11.2) Explains the working principles of encryption algorithms.
P.11.3) Can select the most appropriate encryption method for a specific data protection need.
P.11.4) Applies tools or programming structures to perform basic-level encryption and decryption processes.
P.11.5) Comprehends the critical importance of encryption key management and protection in data security.
P.11.6) Explains the roles of encryption methods in ensuring data integrity and authentication, and uses these methods.
P12) Explains and applies techniques for network and internet security and protection against cyber threats.
P.12.1) Defines the fundamental concepts of network and internet security and explains their functions.
P.12.2) Distinguishes current and common types of cyber threats and explains how these threats harm systems.
P.12.3) Configures and applies basic-level network security tools.
P.12.4) Uses network monitoring tools.
P.12.5) Applies the basic protection techniques required for internet use and network access at individual and institutional levels.
P.12.6) Contributes to training and awareness-raising activities aimed at increasing the cybersecurity awareness of institutions and individuals.
P13) Identifies and fixes security vulnerabilities in computer and software systems.
P.13.1) Explains common security vulnerabilities in software and systems, and the causes of these vulnerabilities.
P.13.2) Can use basic analysis and scanning tools employed to find security vulnerabilities.
P.13.3) Evaluates the potential impact and risk level of a detected security vulnerability.
P.13.4) Comprehends the importance of maintaining security controls throughout the lifecycle of systems and software, and applies the basic steps.
P.13.5) Proposes and applies appropriate patches or code fixes to remediate detected security vulnerabilities.
P.13.6) Reports the results obtained after security tests in a clear manner and presents them to relevant stakeholders.
P14) Performs mathematical calculations.
P.14.1) Correctly performs the basic mathematical operations required to solve professional problems.
P.14.2) Uses number systems and basic logic structures to analyze profession-related data and to understand algorithms and logical processes.
P.14.3) Uses mathematical knowledge to summarize the obtained data.
P.14.4) Uses and calculates formulas containing technical parameters and measurements encountered in their field.
P.14.5) Creates mathematical models for professional problems and generates solutions using these models.
P.14.6) Explains the mathematical foundations used in encryption algorithms.
P15) Uses a foreign language at the general level of European Language Portfolio A1-A1+.
P.15.1) Uses basic-level fundamental expressions for daily life.
P.15.2) Comprehends frequently used expressions and sentences in listening and reading texts.
P.15.3) Introduces oneself in social environments, and asks and answers questions regarding personal information.
P.15.4) Expresses one's background, immediate environment, and events at a basic level in written and oral forms.
P.15.5) Fills out simple forms encountered in daily life and creates short, simple notes.
P.15.6) Reads short and basic-level texts, and comprehends simple content in written texts such as announcements and posters.
P16) To be able to explain in general terms the process from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Türkiye and to determine its place in world history.
P.16.1) Expresses the political and social structure of the Ottoman Empire in broad strokes.
P.16.2) Explains the motivational elements of the National Struggle period.
P.16.3) Conveys the foundation process of the Republic of Turkey through different perspectives.
P.16.4) Understands the main dynamics of Turkey's political, socio-cultural, and socio-economic structure.
P.16.5) Offers a broad perspective by analyzing Turkey's foundation process and its position within world history.
P.16.6) Summarizes the historical and social impacts of Turkey's foundation process and its position.
P17) To know the civilization to which our nation belongs and to act with professional ethics and to have a sense of social responsibility.
P.17.1) Possesses the fundamental principles of professional ethics and social responsibility awareness.
P.17.2) Reflects the importance of professional ethics and social responsibility onto life.
P.17.3) Acts in accordance with professional ethics principles and social responsibility awareness in working life.
P.17.4) Diligently examines the requirements of the concept of professional ethics and social responsibility in the field.
P.17.5) Generates strategies in line with professional ethics for the problems to be encountered.
P.17.6) Evaluates the impacts and consequences of social responsibility with an ethics that does not surrender to materialism.
P18) To be able to identify and eliminate expression errors that may occur in the written and oral forms of expression of the Turkish language, to produce meaningful speech texts with correct sentences and to become competent in scientific research methods.
P.18.1) Explains semantic and expression errors.
P.18.2) Distinguishes spelling rules, punctuation marks, and oral expression problems.
P.18.3) Provides original examples on correct and meaningful topics in the language by resolving pronunciation and articulation problems.
P.18.4) Classifies spelling and punctuation marks in the Turkish language.
P.18.5) Correctly categorizes spelling and punctuation marks in the written, oral, and discussion-based expression genres of the Turkish language.
P.18.6) Has knowledge about scientific research methods (selection and limitation of the topic, and scanning of relevant sources), has an insight into putting research results into writing, and selects the correct source.
P19) Selects and uses OHS-related information and appropriate methods and tools in solving problems encountered to create a healthy and safe working environment.
P.19.1) Explains the concept of occupational health and safety as a whole.
P.19.2) Comprehends the interactions between work and human health.
P.19.3) Defines workplace environment factors in work and health relationships.
P.19.4) Knows what work-related diseases are, how they occur, and their impacts.
P.19.5) Explains the measures to be taken to prevent work-related diseases and occupational diseases.
P.19.6) Explains the precautions to be taken by identifying and analyzing risk factors in working environments.
P.19.7) Comprehends accident causation theories and explains risk assessment standards.
P.19.8) Knows the legislation and legal responsibilities related to occupational health and safety.
P20) To enable students to gain the competence to solve the problems they encounter in their academic and professional lives by using information technologies effectively and efficiently.
P.20.1) Defines the fundamental concepts of information technologies and computer systems, and explains the relationships between these concepts.
P.20.2) Effectively uses basic software applications (e.g., presentation software, etc.) and prepares professional documents using these tools.
P.20.3) Develops skills in searching for, accessing, and securely sharing information using internet and web technologies.
P.20.4) Is conscious of data security, ethics, and privacy issues, and applies these principles.
P.20.5) Writes simple programs by comprehending computer programming and algorithm logic at a basic level.
P.20.6) Understands the applications of information technologies in different disciplines and evaluates the potential impacts of these technologies.
(Below, Programme Learning Outcomes are shown as classified according to the same classification used for the Turkish Qualifications Framework (TQF-HE); that is knowledge, skills and competencies.)
(In order to see the Sub-Programme Learning Outcomes (SPLOs) affiliated to Key Programme Learning Outcomes (KPLOs), please press + sign.)
Knowledge (Described as Theoritical and/or Factual Knowledge.)
P1) He/she has basic, current and practical knowledge about his/her profession.
P.1.1) Defines the fundamental concepts of information security.
P.1.2) Has knowledge about computers and security.
P.1.3) Has knowledge about basic programming logic and data structures.
P.1.4) Explains basic computer architecture.
P.1.5) Analyzes current security trends.
P.1.6) Demonstrates the learned information with practical examples.
P2) Have knowledge about occupational health and safety, environmental awareness and quality processes.
P.2.1) Understands and applies occupational health and safety standards.
P.2.2) Evaluates environmental protection and sustainability principles.
P.2.3) Analyzes and improves quality management processes.
P.2.4) Evaluates environmental impacts and risks in the workplace.
P.2.5) Analyzes and improves quality management processes.
P.2.6) Develops continuous improvement and innovative approaches in the fields of occupational health and safety, environment, and quality.
P3) Follows current developments and practices for his/her profession and uses them effectively.
P.3.1) Regularly follows the innovations and developments in their field and applies them to their professional development.
P.3.2) Applies current software tools.
P.3.3) Addresses complex problems and generates creative solutions.
P.3.4) Has knowledge about current cyber threats.
P.3.5) Transfers professional innovations to their colleagues.
P.3.6) Integrates current technologies into their own projects.
P4) Uses professionally relevant information technologies (software, programs, animations, etc.) effectively.
P.4.1) Efficiently uses office and software tools.
P.4.2) Defines programming environments.
P.4.3) Knows how to develop algorithms and creates data structures appropriate to the algorithm.
P.4.4) Gains knowledge about current software languages.
P.4.5) Researches, selects, and appropriately integrates the required information technologies.
P.4.6) Can use software appropriate for current mathematical modeling and optimization methods.
P5) Has the ability to independently evaluate professional problems and issues with an analytical and critical approach and to propose solutions.
P.5.1) Analyzes a problem.
P.5.2) Establishes the cause-and-effect relationship of the problem.
P.5.3) Generates appropriate solution alternatives.
P.5.4) Evaluates alternative solutions and selects the most appropriate one.
P.5.5) Effectively manages and applies decision-making processes.
P.5.6) Reports the analytical thinking process.
P6) Can effectively present thoughts through written and verbal communication at the level of knowledge and skills and express them in an understandable manner.
P.6.1) Can write reports using basic statistical knowledge.
P.6.2) Speaks and presents confidently in public.
P.6.3) Can report computer and data science analyses and their results
P.6.4) Correctly uses professional terminology.
P.6.5) Can collaborate in teamwork by using effective communication and negotiation skills.
P.6.6) Knows how to use at least one of the MS Office tools.
P7) Takes responsibility as a team member to solve unforeseen and complex problems encountered in applications related to his/her field.
P.7.1) Explains the importance of teamwork.
P.7.2) Has knowledge about project management.
P.7.3) Works effectively individually and in multi-disciplinary teams.
P.7.4) Fulfills the responsibilities given within the scope of the project or task on time and at the expected quality.
P.7.5) Can effectively use online information sources, databases, and communication channels related to their field.
P.7.6) Proposes solutions to problems within the project.
P8) Has awareness of career management and lifelong learning.
P.8.1) Evaluates their own strengths and weaknesses.
P.8.2) Determines individual career goals and creates a personal development plan to achieve these goals.
P.8.3) Adopts the necessity of lifelong learning and continuously updates their knowledge and skills related to their profession.
P.8.4) Evaluates themselves, determines learning needs through self-criticism, and takes action accordingly.
P.8.5) Researches professional certification programs.
P.8.6) Shares learning experiences.
P9) It has social, scientific, cultural and ethical values ​​in the stages of collecting data related to its field, its application and the announcement of its results.
P.9.1) Makes decisions by considering social, scientific, cultural, and ethical values.
P.9.2) Follows ethical standards in data collection and analysis.
P.9.3) Applies scientific research methods and evaluates their results objectively.
P.9.4) Evaluates diversity and cultural differences, and respects these differences.
P.9.5) Develops and implements projects that are sensitive to society and the environment.
P.9.6) Complies with legal and ethical responsibilities regarding data privacy, data security, and intellectual property rights during professional activities.
P10) Uses a foreign language to keep up with current information and communicate with colleagues.
P.10.1) Recognizes professional terms at a basic level.
P.10.2) Knows a second foreign language at least at a level to establish social communication.
P.10.3) Gains oral and written expression skills in at least one European Union foreign language.
P.10.4) Gathers information from online sources.
P.10.5) Follows and understands professional literature published in a foreign language.
P.10.6) Communicates and exchanges information with colleagues from different nations and cultures.
P11) Explains and applies data security and encryption methods.
P.11.1) Defines the fundamental principles and purpose of data security.
P.11.2) Explains the working principles of encryption algorithms.
P.11.3) Can select the most appropriate encryption method for a specific data protection need.
P.11.4) Applies tools or programming structures to perform basic-level encryption and decryption processes.
P.11.5) Comprehends the critical importance of encryption key management and protection in data security.
P.11.6) Explains the roles of encryption methods in ensuring data integrity and authentication, and uses these methods.
P12) Explains and applies techniques for network and internet security and protection against cyber threats.
P.12.1) Defines the fundamental concepts of network and internet security and explains their functions.
P.12.2) Distinguishes current and common types of cyber threats and explains how these threats harm systems.
P.12.3) Configures and applies basic-level network security tools.
P.12.4) Uses network monitoring tools.
P.12.5) Applies the basic protection techniques required for internet use and network access at individual and institutional levels.
P.12.6) Contributes to training and awareness-raising activities aimed at increasing the cybersecurity awareness of institutions and individuals.
P13) Identifies and fixes security vulnerabilities in computer and software systems.
P.13.1) Explains common security vulnerabilities in software and systems, and the causes of these vulnerabilities.
P.13.2) Can use basic analysis and scanning tools employed to find security vulnerabilities.
P.13.3) Evaluates the potential impact and risk level of a detected security vulnerability.
P.13.4) Comprehends the importance of maintaining security controls throughout the lifecycle of systems and software, and applies the basic steps.
P.13.5) Proposes and applies appropriate patches or code fixes to remediate detected security vulnerabilities.
P.13.6) Reports the results obtained after security tests in a clear manner and presents them to relevant stakeholders.
P14) Performs mathematical calculations.
P.14.1) Correctly performs the basic mathematical operations required to solve professional problems.
P.14.2) Uses number systems and basic logic structures to analyze profession-related data and to understand algorithms and logical processes.
P.14.3) Uses mathematical knowledge to summarize the obtained data.
P.14.4) Uses and calculates formulas containing technical parameters and measurements encountered in their field.
P.14.5) Creates mathematical models for professional problems and generates solutions using these models.
P.14.6) Explains the mathematical foundations used in encryption algorithms.
P15) Uses a foreign language at the general level of European Language Portfolio A1-A1+.
P.15.1) Uses basic-level fundamental expressions for daily life.
P.15.2) Comprehends frequently used expressions and sentences in listening and reading texts.
P.15.3) Introduces oneself in social environments, and asks and answers questions regarding personal information.
P.15.4) Expresses one's background, immediate environment, and events at a basic level in written and oral forms.
P.15.5) Fills out simple forms encountered in daily life and creates short, simple notes.
P.15.6) Reads short and basic-level texts, and comprehends simple content in written texts such as announcements and posters.
P16) To be able to explain in general terms the process from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Türkiye and to determine its place in world history.
P.16.1) Expresses the political and social structure of the Ottoman Empire in broad strokes.
P.16.2) Explains the motivational elements of the National Struggle period.
P.16.3) Conveys the foundation process of the Republic of Turkey through different perspectives.
P.16.4) Understands the main dynamics of Turkey's political, socio-cultural, and socio-economic structure.
P.16.5) Offers a broad perspective by analyzing Turkey's foundation process and its position within world history.
P.16.6) Summarizes the historical and social impacts of Turkey's foundation process and its position.
P17) To know the civilization to which our nation belongs and to act with professional ethics and to have a sense of social responsibility.
P.17.1) Possesses the fundamental principles of professional ethics and social responsibility awareness.
P.17.2) Reflects the importance of professional ethics and social responsibility onto life.
P.17.3) Acts in accordance with professional ethics principles and social responsibility awareness in working life.
P.17.4) Diligently examines the requirements of the concept of professional ethics and social responsibility in the field.
P.17.5) Generates strategies in line with professional ethics for the problems to be encountered.
P.17.6) Evaluates the impacts and consequences of social responsibility with an ethics that does not surrender to materialism.
P18) To be able to identify and eliminate expression errors that may occur in the written and oral forms of expression of the Turkish language, to produce meaningful speech texts with correct sentences and to become competent in scientific research methods.
P.18.1) Explains semantic and expression errors.
P.18.2) Distinguishes spelling rules, punctuation marks, and oral expression problems.
P.18.3) Provides original examples on correct and meaningful topics in the language by resolving pronunciation and articulation problems.
P.18.4) Classifies spelling and punctuation marks in the Turkish language.
P.18.5) Correctly categorizes spelling and punctuation marks in the written, oral, and discussion-based expression genres of the Turkish language.
P.18.6) Has knowledge about scientific research methods (selection and limitation of the topic, and scanning of relevant sources), has an insight into putting research results into writing, and selects the correct source.
P19) Selects and uses OHS-related information and appropriate methods and tools in solving problems encountered to create a healthy and safe working environment.
P.19.1) Explains the concept of occupational health and safety as a whole.
P.19.2) Comprehends the interactions between work and human health.
P.19.3) Defines workplace environment factors in work and health relationships.
P.19.4) Knows what work-related diseases are, how they occur, and their impacts.
P.19.5) Explains the measures to be taken to prevent work-related diseases and occupational diseases.
P.19.6) Explains the precautions to be taken by identifying and analyzing risk factors in working environments.
P.19.7) Comprehends accident causation theories and explains risk assessment standards.
P.19.8) Knows the legislation and legal responsibilities related to occupational health and safety.
P20) To enable students to gain the competence to solve the problems they encounter in their academic and professional lives by using information technologies effectively and efficiently.
P.20.1) Defines the fundamental concepts of information technologies and computer systems, and explains the relationships between these concepts.
P.20.2) Effectively uses basic software applications (e.g., presentation software, etc.) and prepares professional documents using these tools.
P.20.3) Develops skills in searching for, accessing, and securely sharing information using internet and web technologies.
P.20.4) Is conscious of data security, ethics, and privacy issues, and applies these principles.
P.20.5) Writes simple programs by comprehending computer programming and algorithm logic at a basic level.
P.20.6) Understands the applications of information technologies in different disciplines and evaluates the potential impacts of these technologies.