Course detail

Cybercrime and Cybersecurity

FEKT-BPC-KKRAcad. year: 2025/2026

Concept and structure of substantive and procedural criminal law, structure of typical cybercrimes, theory and practice of procedural tools used in prosecution of cybercrime, concept and structure of cybersecurity law, theory and practice of legal obligations of regulated subjects, liability for cybersecurity incident, European and international legal regulatory instruments in cybercrime and cybersecurity.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Právnická fakulta (PF MU)

Entry knowledge

This course is relatively independent on other parts of the programme, so no prerequisites are required.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The course is concluded upon 3 interactive questionnaires, whereas required is full completion of at least 60 % of required tasks.
Study requirements will be published annually by the guarantor of the course.

Aims

The purpose of the course is to explain the legal regulatory background of cybersecurity and cybercrime as well as to provide for basic overview of Czech, European and international legislation. As it is not expected that students of this course would have a legal background, the content of the course includes also a general introduction into procedural and substantive criminal law.
Upon the completion of the course, students should be able to understand the structure and system of criminal law institutes used in investigation and prosecution of cybercrime as well as to apply these institutes in regular corporate and public practice. Besides fundamental substantive and procedural institutes, the course will focus also on discovery and forensic analysis of digital evidence including issues related to protection of privacy and protection of personal data. Students should also be able to understand and apply basic preventive and regulative legal instruments in cybersecurity and to critically assess relations between national legal regulatory framework and international harmonization instruments. In addition, students should be able to practically use legal instruments related to regular practice of cybercecurity incident response teams.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Polčák, R. ; Púry, F. ; Harašta, J. a kol. Elektronické důkazy v trestním řízení. 1. vyd. Brno : Masarykova univerzita, Právnická fakulta, 2015.
Polčák, R. a T. Gřivna. Kyberkriminalita a právo. 1. vyd. Praha: AUDITORIUM, 2008. 220 s. Auditorium. ISBN 978-80-903786-7-4.
Polčák, R. Právní problémy české a evropské kybernetické bezpečnosti. In Haňka, R., Kaplan, Z., Matyáš, V. Mikulecký, J. Říha, Z.. Information Security Summit 2011. 1. vyd. Praha: Data Security Management, 2011. ISBN 978-80-86813-22-6.
Završnik, A. Kyberkriminalita, Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2017.
Žatecká, E. a kol. Trestní právo hmotné a procesní: obecná část, multimediální učební text. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2008. 107 s. ISBN 978-80-210-4631-3.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-IBE Bachelor's 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

24 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

  • kyberkriminalita - úvod do problematiky, úvod do trestního práva hmotného a procesního
  • typické skutkové podstaty počítačových trestných činů
  • vyšetřování a stíhání počítačových trestných činů
  • elektronické důkazy a jejich zajišťování
  • přeshraniční počítačová kriminalita a jurisdikční otázky
  • organizovaná kyberkriminalita
  • trestní odpovědnost a odpovědnost ISP
  • ochrana soukromí a kyberkriminalita
  • elektronické dokumenty jako důkaz
  • kybernetická bezpečnost v ČR a EU
  • kybernetická obrana