Cyber second year
Courses
- ITX8080 Simulation of Attacks and Defense
- ITV8060 Computer Network Security (4 EAP) is available and free on Fall for cybersecurity 2. year students and can be moved to Specialization module after you have got a grade.
- ITX8071 Cyber Defense Monitoring Solutions replaces the course ITX8070 Log Mining and Disc Forensics.
- ITX8040 Cyberdefence seminar will take place on Spring semester
- ITX8042 Malware
- ITX8042 Malware II
The courses are free to cybersecurity RE students (the invoices are cancelled) and can be moved to Specialization module after you get a grade.
Writing a Thesis
Topic and advisor
Almost any professor and lecturer you have met in your curricula can act as an advisor of you thesis. Some of them have some open problems suitable for doing research and writing a thesis, but many don't have a topic to offer. It is usually more helpful to have an initial idea of a topic of your thesis and ask someone with interests in the related field to advise you. You can have an advisor not related to the university, but he can act only as a co-advisor and you need to agree to somebody related to the curricula or the leading institute of the curricula to be an official advisor.
Formal Requirements and recommendations
There are no strict rules on formatting your thesis. Some general advices that are good to follow for a master thesis:
- a title page, an author declaration, an annotation in english and estonian, a list of contents, and references are required in the thesis
- around 50 pages + appendixes if needed
- Times New Roman (or similar), font size 12, 1.5 spacing used for the ordinary text
- headings are numbered and no more than 3 levels used
- 2 copies are submitted, you will get one back afterwards.
The Cyber Security Seminar is designed to provide advice on the thesis requirements and writing process to Cyber Security Master's students.
Dates (2013)
- May 13 deadline for application of defending the thesis
- May 27, 9.00 - 11.00 and 15.00 - 17.00, submission of the thesis (two copies to ICT-411)
- June 3 (Schedule) defenses of the thesis (presentation 15 minutes + discussion)
- After defense, please, visit Dean's Office for more information about final formalities
- June 19 - 28 final ceremony
- Upload your thesis if you would like to have it public
Your advisor may have different suggestions, but if they don't say anything then you should plan to have a first draft ready by the end of April.
Links
Some advises and requirements for writing a thesis in UT
Some advises and requirements for writing a thesis in TTU (in Estonian)
Databases, books, research papers accessible from the TTU network