The Department  was founded in 2018

Summary

 

The Department trains highly qualified specialists in the following fields: information security, economic security, applied informatics and business informatics in full-time, part-time and extramural forms of training at the bachelor and master levels. The basis of training is to form professional and personality-oriented competencies of students, which allow to conduct information and analytical research, model threats and manage risks, create effective information and economic security systems and modern mechanisms of their management, design information systems of various purposes interconnected with the objectives and architecture of  the Enterprise, based primarily on domestic software tools and capable of processing restricted information.

Research areas

The SIT Department conducts research in the following areas:

  • technology and methods to ensure the security of critical information infrastructure at the typical facility "Digital substation";
  • contemporary methods and technologies of information and economic security management;
  • contemporary methods and technologies of information security risk management;
  • information technologies in the ​digital economy and ensuring their security;
  • methods and technologies for assessing and supporting the trustworthiness of information technology security;
  • methods and practices of integrated application of modern engineering and technical systems and complexes in providing security of information assets of the organization.​

Recent projects

  • Creation of the basic department "Information technologies and cybersecurity" with the Scientific and Technical Center of the Federal Grid Company "Unified Energy System".

  • ​Development of the research and educational project "Virtual Cyber Polygon: Information Security of Digital Substation".
  • Implementation of “ETALON” advanced training program in the field of "Information Security". 
  • Development of the concept, methodological, technical and personnel support of the new educational project "Cyber Security Summer School"

Features

Enhancing the quality of the educational process on the basis of its continuous improvement and modernization.

Implementation of intensive educational technologies and teaching methods.

Conducting research in the areas of information and economic security, digital economy, development of corporate educational programs and methods of remote learning.

Exchange of advanced educational and research experience in the course of international and domestic scientific and practical Conferences.

Improvement of professional competencies of teachers through their involvement in the exchange of experience during methodological and practical seminars, improvement of scientific and pedagogical qualifications, participation in various educational and scientific activities.​

Unique equipment

1.  Training and research laboratory "Engineering and technical protection of information".

It has a unique set of equipment for conducting training sessions and scientific research to assess the protection of confidential information from leakage via acoustic, vibroacoustic and electroacoustic channels.

2.  Training laboratory "Network and cryptographic protection of information".

The laboratory consists of a unique set of equipment from leading Russian vendors for training and research on organization and assessment of information security using software and hardware for cryptographic and network protection of information.

3.  Training laboratory "Hardware and Software Information Security".

Has a unique set of software, hardware and hybrid protection tools from leading Russian vendors, which are used to ensure the security of computer information under any conditions of attacks on information systems and technologies.

4.  Training laboratory "Information and analytical technologies".

It has a unique set of information and analytical systems and facilities, mostly made in Russia, for training and research in the field of information and economic security, and it also has remote access to the virtual cyber training ground "Information Security of Digital Substation".

5. Training laboratory "Technical means of information protection".

Has a unique set of equipment for training sessions and research on assessing the protection of confidential information against leakage through the channel of electromagnetic radiation during its processing using computer technology, as well as for practical use with security systems at enterprises.

6.  Training laboratory "Open Software".

It has a unique set of software, hardware and hybrid tools, based on open source software and virtualization technologies. It is intended to demonstrate to the trainees the perspectives and trends of the import substitution trend in the software area. 

7.  Training Laboratory "Laboratory of Mobile and Web-Applications".

It includes a unique set of software tools for conducting training sessions to acquire practical skills in designing and developing modern mobile and Web-applications.

Educational programs

Bachelor

10.03.01 Information Security.

Profile 1 "Security of computer systems".

Profile 2 "Security of Automated Systems".

09.03.03 Applied Informatics.

Profile 1 "Applied Computer Science in Economics".

38.03.01 Economics.

Profile 1 "Economics and economic security of enterprises (organizations)".

38.03.05 Business Informatics.

Profile 1 "Information and Software of Business Processes".

Master

10.04.01 Information Security.

Information Security Management program.

09.04.03 Applied Informatics.

Program "Information Systems and Technologies for Digital Economy Support".​​

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