The University Opened the First Cybersecurity Laboratory in the Urals

13:22, October 29, 2021

The platform is organized with the company UCSB

The first cybersecurity laboratory in the Urals was opened at the Institute of Radioelectronics and Information Technologies of UrFU together with the company UCSB. The platform will enable the development of hybrid training: to conduct classes both offline and remotely, including laboratory and practical work.

"The laboratory will become a place of attraction, where students can get practical knowledge on creating secure information systems. This is a big event for us and an example of interaction with a reliable partner - the UCSB company," said Victor Koksharov, Rector of UrFU.

Students of Institute of Radioelectronics and Information Technology organized the opening of the laboratory in an original format. Several high school students solved a logic problem, the answer to which was the word "cybersecurity".

"The company and the university invested not only money, but also competencies. This generates trust between the partners and opens up prospects for the development of further interaction processes. We want to position this laboratory as a place for creating interinstitutional, interdisciplinary projects," Ilya Obabkov, director of the UrFU Institute of Radioelectronics and Information Technology, commented on the opening.

All Ural Federal University students will be able to visit the new laboratory - it will be a center not only for classes, but also for project work. The platform will be launched in a full format on November 8.

"The opening of the laboratory is a significant step that we are making on the way of interaction with the university. We would like this lab to be used not only to study information protection tools, software tools, but also to build cyber-physical systems based on the lab. The laboratory is for all employees, students of the university - for everyone who wants to solve really important tasks," said Valentin Bogdanov, Director General of UCSB.

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.