Cyber security 2012 second year

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IT Academy Scholarships

There are special IT-Academy scholarships available for Cybersecurity students starting from this semester. The scholarships are awarded based on the study results in the previous semesters. The main condition is that you have 30 EAP/semester in total and the rank is based on your average grade. The annoncement and statute of the scholarship is available on the faculty web site (in Estonian only). You don't have to apply for the scholarship. You will be announce when you will get it. You should consider the scholarship conditions in planning your studies this semester.

Academic Calendar

Courses

• ITX8080 Simulation of Attacks and Defense will start on week 2

• ITV8060 Computer Network Security (4 EAP) is available and free on Fall for cybersecurity 2. year students:
  • Lectures on Tuesday (even weeks) at 14.00 (room will be announced soon)
  • Labs on Tuesday (even weeks) at 16.00 ITC Cisco lab room 415
  • It is basically a CCNA Security course for Cybersecurity program
  • It is suitable for students with some networking background and command-line experience
  • Can be moved to Specialization module

• ITX8071 Cyber Defense Monitoring Solutions replaces the course ITX8070 Log Mining and Disc Forensics.
• ITX8040 Cyberdefence seminar will take place on Tuesdays (and not on Wednesdays as shown in your timetable)

• ITX8042 Malware

• ITX8042 Malware II

• ITX8063 IT Systems Hacking Attacks and Defence 2012

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

The information for first year students may be relevant for you also.

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 institute of the curricula to be an official advisor.

More potential advisors and topics

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.

Dates (2012)

• May 28 deadline for application of defending the thesis
• June 1, 12.00, submission of the thesis (two copies to IT-225)
• June 11 (and June 8 if needed) defenses of the thesis (presentation 15-20 minutes + discussion)
• After defense, please, visit Dean's Office for more information about final formalities
• June 20-22 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