Posted:
04.11.2024 15:35:00
Cybersecurity research sector opened at BSU
The BSU Research Institute for Applied Mathematics and Informatics launched its cybersecurity research sector, the university's press service informed
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“Those protocols are sets of rules and procedures that use algorithms to ensure communication and data exchange security. They provide privacy, integrity and authentication of data for various digital interactions,” explained in the press service.
The university specified that the need for the new centre was brought about by growing threats to cybersecurity of virtually all organisations, stemming from the global digitalisation.
“All social areas are at risk today, from finance and education institutions to government agencies. Surging numbers of cyberattacks require a science-based analysis to be understood and effectively neutralised,” they added.
Cyber security issues are being studied extensively all over the world. In Russia, for instance, they are the focus of the Institute of Computer Technology and Information Security of the Southern Federal University, as well as other leading education institutions. The research sector established by the BSU will become one of the first in Belarus in that area.
Summarising the matter, the press service pointed out that the results of the centre’s operations will be used to train cybersecurity professionals, or implemented in organisations that aim to protect their information resources.
The sector’s functionality includes detecting vulnerabilities in protected information and communication technologies, looking for solutions to improve existing operational system protection methods, and developing their own IT systems. Forecasting possible cyber threats, modelling and formally analysing encryption protocols are also among their responsibilities.
“Those protocols are sets of rules and procedures that use algorithms to ensure communication and data exchange security. They provide privacy, integrity and authentication of data for various digital interactions,” explained in the press service.
The university specified that the need for the new centre was brought about by growing threats to cybersecurity of virtually all organisations, stemming from the global digitalisation.
“All social areas are at risk today, from finance and education institutions to government agencies. Surging numbers of cyberattacks require a science-based analysis to be understood and effectively neutralised,” they added.
Cyber security issues are being studied extensively all over the world. In Russia, for instance, they are the focus of the Institute of Computer Technology and Information Security of the Southern Federal University, as well as other leading education institutions. The research sector established by the BSU will become one of the first in Belarus in that area.
Summarising the matter, the press service pointed out that the results of the centre’s operations will be used to train cybersecurity professionals, or implemented in organisations that aim to protect their information resources.
