The Educational and Scientific Cyber Security Center of Sumy State University is a structural unit of the Department of Cyber Security of Sumy State University.

The main goal of the Center is to provide additional educational services to students of higher education and improve the skills of IT workers in modern cyber security methods according to higher education standards, conduct research, develop, test and implement new cyber security technologies.

    The main tasks are:
  • providing higher education students and other persons with additional educational services in the direction of “information technologies”, “cyber security”;
  • conducting long-term and short-term courses on cyber security, including training for external customers;
  • performance of works according to scientific programs, plans, topics, business contracts;
  • providing students of higher education and other persons with the opportunity to acquire practical skills in their field;
  • providing higher education seekers with the opportunity to undergo industrial and other types of internships, assistance in finding places to undergo the specified practitioner;
  • execution of work related to the development, adjustment and testing of cyber systems of the university on the order of other structural divisions of the university;
  • implementation of the latest information and cyber security developments in the activities of enterprises and institutions, as well as in the educational process of higher education institutions;
  • organization and holding of seminars, “round tables”, summer schools, etc. on the subject of cyber protection.
    According to the main tasks, the functions of the Center are:
  • development, approval and implementation of methods and tools of information protection on the orders of individuals and legal entities;
  • development, approval and implementation of methods and tools of information protection according to the orders of structural units of the university;
  • development of educational and methodological support and innovative teaching methods;
  • organization of training, advanced training, certification in cyber hygiene and information security of several levels of expertise;
  • scientific consultations for persons improving their qualifications independently;
  • providing training and consulting services in the field of cyber security to individuals and legal entities.