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Cyber Security Engineering
Program Manager: Valdo Praust
Assistant to Program Manager: Dagmar Tamme
Study programme code: IVSB
Messages
Consultation hour of the programme manager at TalTech IT College (Raja 4c, Tallinn) in room ICO-512:
3, 10 and 17 September from 16.00-17.00;
from 24 September until 17 December on Wednesdays from 15.00-16.00.
For first-year students (2025/26):
* Meeting with the programme manager, 27 August 2025:
recording
presentation slides
* Briefing about studies in the School of IT, 28 August 2025:
presentation slides
Internship
Internship is a mandatory part of your curriculum and must be performed before defending the final thesis. You can find more information regarding the internship procedure here.
In case you have questions regarding internship please contact the internship curator Pille Beldman.
Thesis
Deadlines regarding defences of graduation theses in 2025/26 autumn semester: | |
1 September at 16.00-17.30, ICO-221 | seminar for the 3rd-year students: meeting with theses supervisors |
8 September | submission of a graduation thesis in the semester's individual study plan (only for students who defend theses in the autumn semester) |
29 September | submission of a thesis task specification in Moodle (for all students who defend their theses either in the autumn or spring semester) |
6 - 17 October | defence of a thesis task specification (for all students who defend their theses either in the autumn or spring semester) NB! If the task specification has been previously defended, it does not need to be defended again! |
27 October | submission of a digitally signed thesis task specification in Moodle, signed both by a student and a supervisor (for all students who defend their theses either in the autumn or spring semester) |
1 December | submission of a graduation thesis for the preliminary defence in PDF-format in Moodle (for all students who defend their theses in the autumn semester) |
8 - 12 December | preliminary defence of graduation theses |
15 December | submission of applications for the defence in the study information system (ÕIS) |
5 January | in Moodle: - submission of a digitally signed thesis and separately in PDF-format (under different topics); - filling the file with metadata |
5 January | confirmation of applications for the defence in ÕIS by supervisors |
13 January | completion of the curriculum NB! Before defending the thesis, grades from extracurricular subjects and all grade improvements must also be reflected in ÕIS! |
13 January | publishing the names of students permitted to the defence of graduation theses |
13 January | deadline for reviews of graduation theses |
20 - 23 January | defence of graduation theses |
June 2026 | graduation ceremony in TalTech Assembly Hall |
Seminar about defending theses in the 2024/25 autumn and spring semester: recording, slides
Compiling and defending graduation theses on programmes related to IT College
School of IT: general information about theses and graduation
For more information regarding theses please contact Toomas Lepikult.
Contacts
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Valdo Praust | Dagmar Tamme |
Program Manager | Assistant to Program Manager |
Programme Advisory Committee
- Andrus Padar - Security Expert, chairman
- Margus Ernits - Security Expert
- Raido Orumets - Security Expert
- Kaido Raiend - Security Expert
- Olev Sepp - Security Expert
- Kaido Kikkas - Associate Professor
- Rain Ottis - Associate Professor
- Tsun Sing Jason Fong - Student
- Mattia Roveri - Student