The Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science (russian: Институт криптографии, связи и информатики) or IKSI (ИКСИ) is a research institute within the
Academy of the
Federal Security Service of Russia
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) RF; rus, Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации (ФСБ России), Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Feder ...
, which trains specialists in areas such as the transfer, protection and processing of information. The key specialist training areas are
cryptography,
applied mathematics,
information technology and digital technology,
electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
, radio technology and communications.
Prior to the
dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
, the Institute was known as The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School.
History
The institute began its history in 1949 when a resolution by the
Politburo
A politburo () or political bureau is the executive committee for communist parties. It is present in most former and existing communist states.
Names
The term "politburo" in English comes from the Russian ''Politbyuro'' (), itself a contraction ...
created the Higher School of Cryptographers, and a closed department was created under the Mechanics-Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University by a resolution of the
Council of Ministers of the USSR. Later they united to become the technical faculty of the
Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the
KGB.
The institute comprises faculties of applied mathematics, specialised engineering and information security, departments of natural science, special skills, and English language. The institute also runs an evening physics and maths school, an ex-budgetary Scientific Research Laboratory while the Academy has provision for post-graduate military courses,
MA and
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dissertation boards.
Specialties
*Department of Applied Mathematics
*
Cryptography
*Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Automation of information and analytical processes
*Faculty of Special Technology Information, security telecommunications systems and electronic systems
*Faculty of Information Security
Notable alumni
*
Eugene Kaspersky – cybersecurity expert
See also
*
FBI Academy
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*
National Intelligence University
*
Mercyhurst University Institute for Intelligence Studies
References
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External links
Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Sciencein the
FSB Academy Official Website
Federal Security Service
Educational institutions established in 1949
Intelligence analysis
Intelligence education
Universities and institutes established in the Soviet Union
1949 establishments in the Soviet Union
KGB
Communications in the Soviet Union
Telecommunication education