On August 31, 2022, the closing ceremony of the 2022 Summer Training under the USAID Cybersecurity of Ukraine's Critical Infrastructure Project, an international program to improve the skills of teachers and modernize cybersecurity education programs by global standards, took place.
At the closing ceremony, Olha Nasibulina, USAID Cybersecurity Specialist Development Officer, Robert Peacock, Professor at Florida International University, and course instructors welcomed all program participants.
In the feedback, course participants noted the high level of organization of the USAID-2022 Project. They expressed their gratitude to the instructors and professors from leading U.S. universities, who shared their professional experience and demonstrated the latest methods of teaching disciplines and organizing the educational process.
During the course, the students were provided with access to the Canvas cloud learning environment and the RangeForce, a powerful cloud-based cyber training range for individual and team cybersecurity training, which is recognized as the world's most comprehensive cybersecurity training platform, providing realistic, holistic, advanced defence skills training while simultaneously accurately and quantitatively assessing existing team capabilities.
The Khmelnytsky National University was represented by the faculty of the Department of Cyber Security, including Dzhulii V.M., Klets Y.P., Mostovyi S.V., Mulyar I.V., Petliak N.S., Titova V.Y., and Cheshun V.M., who completed an intensive training course under the USAID Program:
- Advanced Malware Course
- Penetration Testing
- Security Audit and Risk Management
- Cloud Cyber Security
The acquired knowledge and experience are implemented in the educational process to prepare higher education students of bachelor's and master's levels of higher education in the speciality 125 Cybersecurity of KNU. A nice bonus for the department teachers' successful completion of summer training is the allocation of RangeForce licenses to students of the speciality to master the world's advanced cybersecurity technologies in the cloud cyberpolygon.
The staff of the Department of Cybersecurity and students express their sincere gratitude to the American people and the organizers of the USAID Project "Cybersecurity of Ukraine's Critical Infrastructure" for the opportunity to improve their professional skills at the level of the most advanced international practices.