Cyber

News for Spring 2014

There is a series of guest lectures on various cyber security topics. Students are encouraged to attend.

Information about language courses in English and in Estonian.

Labs for courses ITV8040 Network Technology I and ITV8060 Computer Network Security will take place in IT College building in room ITK-415.

Scholarships

There are special IT-Academy scholarships available for Cybersecurity students. The scholarships are awarded based on rank in admission and the study results in the previous semesters. You don't have to apply for the scholarship. You will be notified when you will get it. The annoncement and statute of the scholarship is available on the faculty web site.

You can also apply for Skype and IT Academy Master’s Scholarship and LHV Bank Scholarship.

Studies

Academic Calendar

Study portal. See also:

• portal intro video

• Navigate to the cybersec curricula: click ENG on the right, Select Curricula on the left, Select by "structural units" under Curricula, Open (click to the little +) "Faculty of Information Technology", "10. IVCM09 IVCM09/13 Cybersecurity" in the middle table

You are supposed to declare your courses for the first semester during the first half of september, using the OIS study portal. Please contact Dean's office for necessary passwords if you cannot log in with your ID-card and for any other kind of technical administrative help!

Sources for free choice courses

You can look for additional free choice courses from the following sources

Scan the OIS study portal for available courses this semester (takes effort, but it is useful to learn to find your way in OIS). You can find all the courses given in English (timetables of all international programs) in TUT by looking at OIS -> Timetables -> click to GB flag in the center of the page.

You can take some other language course (French, German, Russian, Finnish) offered by the Language Centre in addition to the courses (HLI2200, HLX8040) in your curriculum. Some of the alternative courses may not be free to study. In such a case OIS will give notice when you declare the course.

ITX8510 and ITX8511 Practical Training in Information Technology

You can get credit for ITI8510 and ITI8511 if you have working experience in IT field. To get the credit you have to:

• have a working experience equivalent for at least 3 months of full-time job.
• fill an application in OIS (Applications -> Acceptance of practice). You cannot declare it as an ordinary course.
• ask your employer to fill the form (form is in Estonian).
• meet Tanel Tammet at consultancy or any other agreed time and explain your duties and results of the work done.

Contact

• Tallinn University of Technology
  • International Study Centre will help you in the first steps at TUT and provides useful help along your studies.
  • See also campus maps
  • Faculty of Information Technology
  • Dean's Office of IT dept: room ICT-407, phone 6203528, email i@ttu.ee
  • program coordinator Marko Kääramees, marko.kaaramees@ttu.ee, phone 6203461, room ICT-427, Akadeemia 15a. Consultancy time on Thursdays at 15.00.
  • additional help from Helena Vaarmets, helena.vaarmets@ttu.ee, phone 55 531 794, room ICT-429 and Tanel Tammet phone 6203457, room ICT-426, consultancy time on Mondays at 10.00.
• University of Tartu
  • Institute of Computer Science
  • program coordinator Dominique Unruh