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USUE students have developed a cyber tracker
The USUE team, Malachite, entered the TOP-5 teams of the All-Russian Summer Scientific School on Information Security in St. Petersburg.
The annual summer school on information security at the St. Petersburg University of Telecommunications is one of the most prestigious competitions in Russia among students majoring in information security. Arranging a “battle testing” for corporate systems, detecting hackers’ traces using remnant data, knowing the differences of domestic operating systems from Windows and other foreign analogues—these are what good specialists should be able to do. Participants from 30 universities and colleges from all over the country had to show both their knowledge and the ability to learn new things from scratch, adapting to unusual task conditions.
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“This is a very dynamic area; new items appear every day. Therefore, to grow professionally, you need to stay in the know, constantly interact with colleagues, and constantly learn something new. This is the goal of the Summer School - to establish professional connections,” Artyom Turyshev, a USUE 3rd year student, explains. “I already participated in the Summer School last year. Yegor Roslov and Katya Lapteva from our team took part in it for the first time. We were placing somewhere seventh or eighth, but in the competition of scientific works the jury gave us the highest score, and in this competition, we were the first. Due to this, we entered the TOP-5. I believe that only thanks to teamwork, we were scored high.”
The scientific work of the USUE team is the use of machine learning to analyze network traffic in a corporate network. The students taught artificial intelligence to find threatening data in the general information flow, for example, suspicious IP addresses, and if the machine noticed something on the network that could pose a threat, it generated a signal.
“The difficulty is that corporate clients usually do not share data from their networks. Consequently, there is nothing to teach algorithms on,” the scientific adviser of the Malachite team, head of the USUE Business Informatics Department, Dmitry Nazarov, explained. “The guys suggested several mechanisms to compensate for this. And the jury members, representatives of companies that really deal with security issues, appreciated their proposals.”
The All-Russian traveling Summer Scientific School was held at the Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications from 10 to 15 July. In the overall team standings, the USUE team Malachite took 5th place, beating the teams of technical universities of St. Petersburg and Moscow, which confirms not only the high level of professional skills of USUE students but also the level of research carried out at Ural State University of Economics.
