Cyber Security Experts to Be Trained at BAU

The Bahçeşehir University (BAU) Cyber Security Center has opened with the aim of training an expert workforce capable of providing the cyber security required for online systems and offering consultancy to companies on security vulnerabilities. 

The rapid development of technology and its entry into every area of our lives not only increase our work efficiency and make our lives easier but also expand the field of activity of malicious individuals and criminal organizations. Intrusions into computer systems cause great financial losses for both individuals and institutions and companies. Because of cyber attacks, which also pose a significant threat to national security, a trained workforce in this field has become an important need for both institutions and states today. It is estimated that 21 billion devices will be online in 2020, that 88 percent of company employees are unaware of cyber security, that the cyber security economy will reach 6 trillion dollars in 2021, and that the cost of cyber attacks to countries will reach 400 billion dollars. According to the results of observations on data breach and cyber attack lists as of September 2017, it has also been reported that 174 million records were leaked.

At the Bahçeşehir University (BAU) Cyber Security Center, activities will be carried out to protect information and raise awareness of "cyber security" , followed by the provision of professional training content. In addition to the measures to be taken against cyber threats and attacks on online systems, thanks to the infrastructure strengthened with hardware and software established in the Bahçeşehir University (BAU) laboratory, it will be possible to learn by experimenting, touching, seeing and monitoring the outputs. Numerous training scenarios created on virtualized machines will ensure that the training is better absorbed and lasting.

Speaking at the opening of the Cyber Security Center, Bahçeşehir University (BAU) President Prof. Dr. Şenay Yalçın stated that the speed and progress of scientific and technological work shorten the processes of social transformation, and said that a process that starts with graduate studies turns, in a very short time, into technologies that kindergarten and primary school students can use in education. Yalçın also emphasized that one of the most important areas of this transformation is "information technologies," which arise from the combined use of "information" and "communication" technologies. Emphasizing that the concept of "Cyber Security" is part of our daily lives almost like a living system, Bahçeşehir University (BAU) President Prof. Dr. Şenay Yalçın stated that they believe the Cyber Security Center will make great contributions to our National Security by providing training, carrying out projects and producing applied graduate theses in the field of cyber operations, which constantly renews itself and is also called the fifth dimension. Stating that they face a great threat as a country, as a society and as individuals, Prof. Dr. Şenay Yalçın said: "To cope with this threat, we need to be able to detect cyber attacks with early warning systems, identify and classify the threats we detect, combat the classified threats, and protect our own systems while doing all this."