Cyber

News for Fall 2015

• Welcome meeting for the incoming class is at 1630 on Thursday the 27th of August in ICT-A1 (second floor of IT building at Akadeemia 15a).

• Individual study plans must be submitted via OIS no later than 1700 on 10th of September.

• The new instructor for ITX8090 (Information and Cyber Security Assurance in Organisations) is Dr Andro Kull.

• ITX8041 (Legal Aspects of Cyber Security) is replaced by ITC8010 (same name). There are minor changes in content and the course is now given on both semesters. For the fall semester of 2015 the course is given by Agnes Kasper.

• ITX8215 (Digital Evidence) is replaced by HOE7023 (same name). There are no significant changes to the content.

• ITX8062 (Information Systems Mass Attacks and Defence) is replaced by ITC8050 (Strategic and Operational Aspects of Cyber Security), which will be offered on both semesters. The course will be given on odd weeks throughout the semester (previously weeks 1-8).

• ITX8063 (Information Systems Hacking Attacks and Defence) is replaced by ITC8070 (Information Systems Attacks and Defence). The new course will be 4 ECTS.

• Tartu University courses MTAT.03.246 and MTAT.03.247 will be combined into one 6 ECTS course MTAT.03.307 (Principles of Secure Software Design).

• Tartu University Research Seminar on Cryptography (MTAT.07.019) gets a new code: MTAT.07.022.

• Information about language courses in English and in Estonian.

Studies

Administrative information

Academic Calendar in English

Academic Calendar in Estonian (pdf)

Study portal. See also:

• portal intro video

• Navigate to the Cyber Security curriculum: 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 must declare your courses for the semester by the so-called "red line" date, which is generally mid-September or mid-February, depending on the semester. Use the OIS study portal to declare courses.

• 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!

Course web sites

Please note that this is not a complete list.

• ITV8060 Computer Network Security (4 ECP) is available and free on Fall for second year students and can be moved to Specialization module after you have got a grade.

• ITX8040 Cyber Defence seminar (spring semester)

• ITX8042 2014 Malware

• ITX8050 Special Course in Cyber Security

• ITX8060 2014 Malware II

• ITX8062 Information Systems Mass Attacks and Defence

• ITX8063 Information Systems Hacking Attacks and Defence

• ITX8071 Cyber Defense Monitoring Solutions replaces the course ITX8070 Log Mining and Disc Forensics.

• ITC8060 Network Protocol Design.

The courses are free (the invoices are cancelled) to Cyber Security RE students and can be moved to Specialization module after you get a grade.

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.

ITX8512 Practical Training in Information Technology

You can get credits if you have working experience in IT field. More information can be found here: ITX8512

Thesis and graduation

The fourth semester is reserved for writing your thesis. This is a demonstration of your professional knowledge and skills, and the process typically involves the following steps (with the help of your supervisor):

• identify a problem that matters
• research possible solutions, and select or develop the most suitable one
• implement the solution
• analyze the results of your work
• present your work in a professional manner in written (thesis) and oral (thesis defence) form

Thesis information - deadlines, proposed topics, requirements, etc.

Scholarships

There are special IT-Academy scholarships available for Cyber Security 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 this scholarship. You will be notified if and when you qualify for it. The announcement 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.

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 Rain Ottis, rain.ottis@ttu.ee, room ICT-430, Akadeemia 15a. Consultancy registration via e-mail.
  • research coordinator Olaf Maennel, olaf.maennel@ttu.ee, ICT-420, Akadeemia 15a. Consultancy registration via e-mail.
  • additional help from Helena Vaarmets, helena.vaarmets@ttu.ee, phone 55 531 794, room ICT-429.
• University of Tartu
  • Institute of Computer Science
  • program coordinator Dominique Unruh