KSTU officially opened the first Cyber Learning Centre in our region

KSTU hosted the opening ceremony of the first Cyber Learning Centre in the region, which will use innovative educational technologies and teaching methods.

The Centre was created with the support of the state and the assistance of the Governor of the Kaliningrad region, as well as business, represented by Softline Group, which assisted in the selection and supply of the Ampire training simulator.

The opening ceremony preceded the IT section meeting, at the beginning of which KSTU Rector V.A. Volkogon spoke about the importance of the development of digital sciences and technologies to counter cyberattacks. Nowadays, it becomes an important scientific and educational trend. Then the rector invited all conference participants to the new Cyber Learning Centre.

A.N. Golubykh, Minister of Digital Technologies of the Kaliningrad region, M.A. Popov, representative of the IS centre of Softline PJSC, I.E. Bugai, head of the key customer relations department of Perspective Monitoring JSC, representatives of the KSTU administration, lecturers and students also took part in the opening ceremony of the centre.

Future fighters against cyberattacks in the new centre will learn to investigate information security incidents, identify, eliminate and prevent computer attacks. Lecturers will also be able to improve their skills at the centre.

A high level of automation of scripts and templates ensures comfortable and interesting work for all participants of the educational process.

All these factors will significantly improve the level of our graduates' training.

Additionally, the first Cyber Learning Centre in Kaliningrad plans to provide training under professional development and retraining programs, aiming to enhance the expertise of IS specialists from different companies.

In addition, KSTU plans to use the center for training subjects of critical information infrastructure (representatives of executive authorities).

KSTU aims to constantly improve its professional training programs, so it started to consider various solutions to modernise the process of training IT and IS specialists at the Institute of Digital Technologies.

It was decided to build a Cyber Learning Centre on the basis of the Ampire simulator, which allows training in methods of detection, analysis and elimination of computer attacks' consequences.

Kaliningrad State Technical University is the largest higher educational institution in the Russian fisheries industry.

KSTU implements professional training programs for bachelors, certified specialists, masters and postgraduate training programs for candidates and doctors of science, as well as various additional professional programs for advanced training and professional retraining of specialists.