The Summer School for master’s degree students in IT security area was organized by the EU ENGENSEC project in Lviv, Ukraine!

The IT security Summer School united the best students from Blekinge Institute of Technology (Karlskrona, Sweden), Wroclaw University of Technology (Wroclaw, Poland), Lviv Polytechnic National University (Lviv, Ukraine), Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (Kharkiv, Ukraine), State University of Telecommunication (Kiev, Ukraine) on the basis of Lviv Polytechnic National University (Lviv, Ukraine).

 The official part of Summer School started on Monday, 27th of June. Anders Carlsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden), Oksana Yevsieieva (Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine) and Yuriy Lakh (Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine) had a welcome speech to students.

After that the first course “Advanced Network & Cloud security” started. Prof. Kurt Tutschku (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden) and Oksana Yevsieieva prepared for student interesting and actual lectures and training about Internet of Things, Cloud Computing and Software-Defined Networking paradigm.

All the courses of the Summer School belong to a set of ENGENSEC double Diploma courses that were developed by ENGENSEC partners. They are addressing to current security IT challenges, identified by academia and industry.

The course “Malware analysis” was presented by Aleksandr Adamov (Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Kharkiv, Ukraine), “Secure software development” was presented by Tomasz Surmacz (Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland), “Web security” was presented by Iryna Sokolianska (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden) and Sergei Syroezhkin (Kaliningrad State Technical University, Kaliningrad, Russia), “Pentesting and Ethical Hacking” was presented by Andrian Piskozub (Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine).

Last two days before the weekend ( 30th of June -1th of Jule) were devoted to “Secure Software Development” course. Tomasz Surmacz from Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland) taught our students the methodologies of proper software development, including assertion-based programming and test-driven development. Typical problems such as buffer overflows have been also presented and explained.

Alexander Adamov from Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics narrated about phishing, targeted attacks and reverse engineering techniques on June 29-30 during the course “Malware Analysis” .

The course “Web Security” took place on 4-5 July. The course teachers are Iryna Sokolianska (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden) and Sergei Syroezhkin (Kaliningrad State Technical University, Kaliningrad, Russia). The course was devoted to analysis of current statement and challenges of modern Web.The course “Digital Forensic” took place on 5-6 July. The course teacher is Anders Carlsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden). Digital forensics is the process of uncovering and interpreting electronic data. The goal of the process is to preserve any evidence in its most original form while performing a structured investigation by collecting, identifying and validating the digital information for the purpose of reconstructing past events. Students have learned advanced file systems structure, the methodology and sequence steps to perform forensic analysis.
The course “Pentesting and ethical hacking” took place on 7-8 July. The course teacher is Andrian Piskozub (Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine). Students studied the principles and practice of ethical hacking. These items are important for the construction of secure computer systems.

Some students of Lviv Polytechnic National University have been organized the Quest for other members of Summer School. The Quest was aimed to investigate the main of sites of Lviv and to have some fun.
 
 

Closing ceremony of ENGENSEC Lviv Summer School was on Friday, July 8. Anders Carlsson, general manager of the ENGENSEC project, and Yuri Lakh, web-security course developer and project coordinator of Lviv Polytechnic National University, congratulated students with successful completion of Summer school and thanked for their participation.
Students from each university participated in the final competition and obtained the official certificates. The certificates are an official confirmation of getting 3 ECTS after studying the ENGENSEC education programs.