Cybersecurity

The course examines the modern history of Kazakhstan as part of the history of mankind, the history of Eurasia and Central Asia. The modern history of Kazakhstan is a period in which a holistic study of historical events, phenomena, facts, processes is carried out, revealing historical patterns that took place on the territory of the Great Steppe in the twentieth century and up to the present day.

The object of study of the discipline is philosophy as a special form of spiritual studies in its cultural and historical development and modern sound. The main directions and problems of world and domestic philosophy are studied. Philosophy is a special form of cognition of the world, creating a system of cognition of the general principles and foundations of human life, about the essential characteristics of a person’s attitude to nature, society and spiritual life, in all its main direction.

The course includes an intensive English language program focused on grammar and conversational skills. The course includes topics reflecting the latest advances in information technology, and the terminology dictionary makes them directly relevant to the needs of students.

The course occupies a special place in the system of training bachelors with engineering education. For students of a technical university, studying professional Kazakh/Russian languages is not only improving the skills and abilities acquired at school, but also a means of mastering a future specialty.

In the course, information and communication technologies are considered as modern methods and means of communication of people in ordinary and professional activities with the help of information technologies for the search, collection, storage, processing and dissemination of information.

The course is dedicated to general political knowledge for specialties in the field of ICT. It includes political self-awareness, improvement of one’s political outlook and communicative competencies. The teaching of political knowledge is communicative, interactive, student-oriented, result-oriented and largely depends on the independent work of students.

The course includes knowledge of sociological subject areas, research methods and directions. During the course, the main sociological theories and the most effective ways to gain in-depth knowledge about various aspects of our modern society will be discussed in detail. The special importance of this course for students is to develop the sociological imagination, to understand the basic concepts of sociology as a science.

This course presents psychology issues in a broad educational and social context. The knowledge, skills and abilities acquired and formed as a result of mastering the course content give students the opportunity to apply them in practice, in various spheres of life: personal, family, professional, business, social, in working with people – representatives of different social groups and age categories.
The course is also designed to form bachelor’s ideas about the factors that complicate teaching at the present stage of development of society, about the difficulties specific to this activity.

The course will help to become the basis for the study of the entire complex of social sciences and humanities, as well as a supplement to general courses in history and philosophy. The course includes such topics as morphology, semiotics, anatomy of culture; culture of nomads of Kazakhstan, cultural heritage of Proto-Turks, medieval culture of Central Asia, formation of Kazakh culture, Kazakh culture in the context of globalization, cultural policy of Kazakhstan, etc.

The course is devoted to the formation of physical culture of the individual and the ability to direct the use of various means of physical culture to preserve and strengthen health.

Within the framework of the academic discipline, the student studies the essence of entrepreneurial activity on the basis of the current legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The course will demonstrate the role and place of small enterprises in the modern conditions of the functioning of the economy of the state and society. The discipline will allow to understand the basic principles and content of the business plan of business entities, to form thinking based on modern anti-corruption culture, organizational forms of entrepreneurial activity are explained, including taking into account sustainable development, ecology and safety of personnel.

The discipline introduces students to modern concepts and tools of entrepreneurship and obtaining the theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary to launch their own startup, taking into account the basics of life safety. On the basis of law and anti-corruption culture, the process of obtaining a patent, the legality of ownership of technological development is being studied, taking into account the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of intellectual property. Students apply strategic analysis in the field of economics, management, communication and technological entrepreneurship.

The course examines the OSI model, basic physical and data link layer protocols, types of equipment, design and configuration of local networks, subnets, etc. As a result of mastering, students will know and understand the principles of operation and design of computer networks, they will master the basic skills of working with the operating systems of network devices of the Linux family to configure them.

This course provides an in-depth, theoretical understanding of network security. The course explains network threats, mitigation techniques, and the basics of securing a network, securing administrative access on Cisco routers, secure administrative access with AAA. During the course, students learn how to implement firewall technologies to secure the network perimeter, configure IPS to mitigate attacks on the network, implement secure virtual private networks and an ASA firewall configuration using the CLI, perform test network security and create a technical security policy.

The course is devoted to the study of methods for analyzing the system for potential vulnerabilities and to create recommendations for eliminating vulnerabilities

The course aims to familiarize students with modern views and approaches to information security (IS) risk management, disclose the significance of risks for successfully ensuring the information security of an enterprise, explain the main stages of development and implementation of an information security risk management system, familiarize themselves with the main provisions of the leading world standard ISO 27005.

The academic discipline is aimed at developing the skills of using project management tools at various stages of the project life cycle. The subject of the discipline is the qualitative and quantitative assessment of project risks and the determination of its effectiveness.

The course is designed to study the basic methods and tools required for the introduction of scientific research. The course also introduces students to the most popular searchable databases of scientific articles, such as Web of Science, Scopus, ScienceDirect and others. During the course, students will become familiar with citation and search tools for the required scientific information. Summary of the main sections: empirical research methods (observation, comparison, measurement, experiment); methods of theoretical research (abstraction, analysis and synthesis, idealization, induction and deduction, mental modeling, ascent from the abstract to the concrete, etc.). Learning outcomes: Mastering the skills and competencies required to form a highly qualified specialist according to the purpose and content of the course.

In this course, students will learn in practice how to conduct a detailed analysis of network resources, software, web resources for vulnerabilities, their exploitation and further elimination. Also, students will get acquainted with the most common attack scenarios. At the end of the course, students will learn the main stages of penetration testing, the use of modern tools for analyzing the security of an information system or application, and the classification of vulnerabilities and methods for fixing them.

The course studies the basic principles, methods, and methods of Windows system administration. Students learn server configuration, configuring server roles and functions, configuring Hyper-V, deploying and configuring core network services, installing and administering Active Directory, and creating and managing group policies. They also explore modern file server and storage management technologies, Hyper-V virtualization, disaster recovery in Windows Server, SAN storage and failover cluster management, remote access implementation and performance monitoring in Windows Server.

Industrial practice gives students the opportunity to get acquainted with the real conditions in industrial enterprises or in business and form an idea of what the work in their chosen profession consists of.

Pre-diploma practice is intended for the collection, processing and systematization of the material necessary for the completion of the thesis / project.

The course covers topics related to the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. It lays out the fundamentals of Bitcoin technologies; how hash functions and digital subscriptions are intertwined; how reliable cryptography and encryption algorithms are; anatomy of transactions; verification and throughput; hard and soft forks. It explains how mining actually happens, how bitcoins are created, how to enter the Bitcoin network and how a digital wallet functions. In addition to basic mathematical education for students enrolled in the educational program «Cybersecurity», as a prerequisite, students are required to have a basic understanding of the basics: databases, computer networks, web servers.

The course focuses on the practical application of the MapReduce distributed computing model. For the implementation of the algorithms, a freely distributed set of Hadoop utilities has been selected, which is used to implement search and contextual mechanisms of many highly loaded websites during mass-parallel data processing. Currently, Hadoop is considered one of the fundamental technologies when working with Big Data and is used in many industries: healthcare, telecommunications, trade, logistics, financial companies, as well as in public administration.