Cyber security 2011 first year

News

ITX8041 Legal Aspects of Cyber Security

There was an unexpected problem with starting the course. We hope that the problems will be solved and the course starts on October. We will let you know through this wiki page when it will be clear.

Language Classes

You have to register and give an initial test until Sep 6th to attend the English for Science class. Lessons start on the 3rd week. You can register to test using web form. The form is unfortunately in Estonian, the names of the input fields are Surname, Name, Student code, Curricula (IVCM), E-mail, Phone number and Time for test. You can also write to merlin.urbla@ttu.ee and let her know the time you will attend the test (from the list in the registration form).

HLI2200 Estonian Language and Culture is not planned to take place at the time in the timetable due to lack of interest. The course takes place on other times at Monday 10.00, room X-222, Monday 16.00, room X-222, Wednesday 10.00, room X-210, Thursday 16.00, room X-307, Friday 10.00, room X-417, Thursady 10.00 (based on Finnish). Please contact Marin.Vinkel@ttu.ee if you have questions about the course.

You can actually take some other language course (French, German, Russian, Finnish) offered by the Language Centre in addition to the courses (HLI2200, HLX8040) in your curricula. You can contact kristel.laanpere@ttu.ee to get more specific information about the courses offered.

ITX8511 Practical Training in Information Technology

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

• have a working experience equivalent for at least 2 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.

ITX8090 and ITX8043 schedule

Replacement of lectures due to business trips:

Sept 14, Oct 5 at 14-17:15 ITX8090 (Kivimaa) lectures instead of ITX8043 (Leis) lectures

Sept 23, Oct 21 at 17:30-20:59 ITX8043 (Leis) lectures instead of ITX8090 (Kivimaa) lectures

Schedules, courses, useful links

Basic:

• Uni of Tartu
  • program coordinator Peeter Laud: peeter_l@ut.ee
• Tallinn Uni of Tech and it department. See also campus maps
  • program coordinator Marko Kääramees (Marko.Kaaramees@ttu.ee, phone 6203461, room IT-224, Raja 15) with additional help from Tanel Tammet (tammet@staff.ttu.ee, phone 6203457, room IT-223 at Raja 15)
  • study administration at it dept: room IT-235 Raja 15, 12618 Tallinn, phone 6203528, email i@ttu.ee
  • see also international studies intro page and people to contact
  • Important: lecture timetable
  • study portal. See also:
    • portal intro video
    • Navigate to the cybersec study plan: click ENG on the right, Select Curricula on the left, Select by "structural units" under Curricula, Open "10. IVCM09 IVCM09/09 Cybersecurity" in the middle table (click the little + after 10.)

Observations and suggestions

Observe that the first semester is relatively easy. It makes a lot of sense to take additional elective courses at the first semester. See the ideas below and scan the OIS study portal for available courses this fall (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.

In particular, cybersec elective courses of cryptology at Tartu are a good choice for people interested in tech and math!

You are supposed to declare your courses for the first semester during the first half of september, using the OIS study portal. Contact the study administration people at IT-235 Raja 15, 12618 Tallinn, phone 6203528, email i@ttu.ee for necessary passwords and for any other kinds of technical administrative help!

If for some reason you cannot declare a course in time, do not despair: it is ok to start the study without declaring all courses immediately.

NB! It will take time to get the OIS passwords for international students. Understandably you cannot declare your courses in OIS until that, meaning that is OK to declare them later.

Ideas for additional courses during fall 2011

Initial suggestions for courses in addition to the main course schedule are different for people with/without IT background. In the first case, get intro courses (generic intro, very basic programming and very basic networking). In the second case, take additional non-intro courses or do some courses (or replacements) in advance.

People with no/little IT background

You need to get some general IT background, very basic programming competence and intro to networking. Please tell the program coordinators about your background and we will put some suggestions about elective courses on this page.

• General
  • ITX0025 - Introduction to Information Technology (Endre Domiczi), lectures odd weeks Wednesday 08:00-09:30 room IT-140, labs even weeks Wednesday 08:00-09:30 room IT-213D+H .

• Programming: two options, start in parallel, then choose which (or both) to pursue:
  • Partially self-study option: start http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/ and enroll to the comprehensive programming course based on java (ITI0011) programming course based on the book. The lectures are in Estonian (no point in attending unless you understand Estonian) but you can receive labwork in English and do the labs in English (choose a suitable labtime once per week from OIS and talk to lab instructors). In case you have no programming background, you'll simply have to do additional excercises from the book to get to the level required by the labs (doable). NB! For students speaking Estonian, just attend the iti0011 course as regular student, attend lectures etc (obviously, you'll still have to do additional excercises from the book).
  • IDK1011 (in English) - Introduction to Programming. It is a soft start to programming.

People with an IT background

• Possible replacements for Tallinn spring business administration courses:

• • See the TVTM11 schedule link under the "T-School of Economics and Business Administration of TUT" block in the timetable in OIS. It has turned out that some of the courses belonging to this program can be studied only for additional fee (OIS will warn you when it is the case).
  • You may contact the Economics and Business Administration international studies counselor Siyi Ma (phone 620 3940, room X-247) for additional details about the courses

• Tartu: Cryptology I. Requires good math background. See course page and contact Peeter Laud (peeter_l@ut.ee) for questions about possible distance learning, replacing lab time on Thursdays etc.

• See the IVSM schedule link under the "I-Faculty of Information Technology" block in the timetable in OIS: these are courses for the first-year international master studies in software engineering and could be an interesting option. The software engineering program coordinator is Jüri Vain (vain@ioc.ee, phone 620 4190): you may want to check with him for the available/suitable courses in that program.

• The IT College (building located close to the IT dept building) offers very good CISCO academy network administration courses. Contact the IT College for the exact schedule and availability. Some of these courses are a suitable replacement for networking/administration courses at the second semester in Tartu. However, the IT College/CISCO courses are not part of the Uni of Tech curriculum, hence you would have to pay for these courses yourself.

• Some of the second-year cybersec courses might be suitable if you have enough IT background and there is no time overlap with you main courses. Check the schedule http://www.lambda.ee/index.php/Cyber_security_2010_second_year and in case of interest, talk (email) to the lecturers and ask about the required background and possibility to enroll. The classes are quite popular and it may happen that there are no places left for the first year students.