Information Security. Which university in St. Petersburg?

Question

Information Security

I want to enter the information security in St. Petersburg. I understand that everywhere they teach according to outdated programs, but after rummaging through the curricula, in St. Petersburg (not a very popular university) I found Cisco Academy courses from 2 to 4 courses. What do you think about this?

Answer 1

I am a 4th year student at LETI with a degree in Computer Security. Last year, a separate department of information security was allocated for us. The head of the department decided to modernize and is trying to deploy DLP systems so that we can learn from them, but we are not seeing anything.
At the moment:
- Matan as everywhere
- Humanitarianism as everywhere
- Little programming
- TOE and all sorts of crap with electrical engineering a lot
- Matstat, theory, decision theory, management theory - boring things (in my opinion). Moreover, this subject is taught by teachers on old programs (89th year). But these subjects are in the 2nd or 3rd year, so I don’t know what’s next
- in the 4th year, the theory of information security began. Now we have cryptography and all sorts of radio bookmarks. (There is no equipment, nowhere to train).
There is still 5 course and undergraduate practice ahead. But I was already disappointed that I went to KB, because they don’t teach anything here, and in the IS profession itself, what they do (headhunter and the words of the IS teachers themselves). You study everything yourself. IMHO.

Answer 2

We have a fair amount of the information security department from ITMO. And yes, a university without self-study is not needed.

Answer 3

I have employees from ITMO and the railway in my department. If a person does not study outside the university program, there is frankly little useful knowledge.
However, CCNA courses, if not taken for show, are a very useful thing.