Billions of VND have been invested in the DTU Open Lab, including two practice rooms for Information Security and Network Engineering. The facility includes a full range of specialized equipment, such as high-capacity servers, routers, firewalls, IDS/IPS, and load balancers, supplied by Cisco, Fortinet, Drytech and others, used in conjunction with the “DTU Network Drill Ground,” the “DTU Private Cloud,” and the DTU Network Operation Simulation Center.
This state-of-the-art equipment is managed by a team of security experts who work at DTU or come from local companies, such as VNCERT, VNPT-IT, BKAV, and Viettel, who contribute significantly to the lab by providing practical situations, such as real security threats that have already been detected, the latest warning messages, and unique solutions, giving students an in-depth understanding of security vulnerabilities, risks, and how to promptly deal with them. They are now able to focus on the day-to-day operation of highly secure networks, and, at the same time, concentrate on the development of secure cyberspace applications.
Two examples of security vulnerability are:
- CVE-2022-37968 in the “Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes cluster Connect”, enabling direct attacks
- 2022-40684, with a serious impact on the FortiOS and FortiProxy systems, announced by Fortinet, with a warning issued by the Authority of Information Security
The DTU Open Lab model for network engineering & information security can also be used to develop pentest, IoT pentest, DevSecOps and other systems on the web, by respond instantly to potential security vulnerabilities, even those encountered for the first time.
DTU Open Lab students demonstrate their expertise by winning major awards at both national and international contests, including:
- Second prize, at the 2022 ASEAN Student Information Security Contest
- Second prize, at the Arab Security Cyber Wargames in Egypt in 2022
- Third prize, at the 2022 Security Bootcamp
- Third prize, at the 2022 Insomni’hack CTF finals in Switzerland
At the same time, the ISITDTU team, the White-Hat Hackers, was ranked first in Vietnam by CTFTime, and 58th and 38th worldwide, in 2021 and 2022, respectively.
In 2023, Times Higher Education released its international by-subject rankings, and the DTU Computer Science major entered the 251 to 300 range, as a result of years of work developing IT and Computer Science education programs, which are now universally recognized. DTU programs in Computer Science & Information Systems are also ranked in the 301 to 350 range in the world by QS Ranking, and, in 2022, Shanghai Ranking placed DTU in the 151 to 200 band in Computer science & Engineering.
The university currently offers the following IT majors:
Software Technology Engineering, with minors in:
- Software Engineering
- CMU-standard advanced & high-quality Software Engineering, ABET-accredited in 2021
- Game Design & Multimedia
- Big Data & Machine Learning, HP
- Artificial Intelligence, HP
Information Security, with minors in:
- Network Engineering, ABET-accredited in 2019
- CMU-standard advanced & high-quality Information Security
CMU-standard advanced & high-quality Management Information Systems, ABET accredited in 2019:
- Computer Science
- Data Science
- Computer Networks and Data Communications
The DTU programs in IT & Computer Science are internationally guaranteed. The university imported the curricula and trained its lecturers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), one of the four leading IT universities in the US. Technology & Engineering students are taught using the international CDIO (Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate) learning method. These majors have all achieved the highest ABET accreditation level for six years, and most of them are taught in English by visiting lecturers from American universities or by foreign lecturers working at the DTU International School (IS).
DTU IT graduates are in great demand for recruitment into key corporate positions, especially at the annual Job Fair, they include:
- Nguyen Thanh Khanh (K22 TMT), Head of Information Security Monitoring at VNCERT at the Ministry of Information & Communications
- Nguyen Oanh Thuong (K19 TMT), Information Security Virtual Intrusion Tester at VNPT-IT
- Pham Thi Le Trinh (K14 HTTT), Project Manager at Enclave,
- Nguyen Ha Tri Duc (K21 TMT), Information Security department, Telecom Kon Tum
- Thai Truong Duy (K21 TMT), Information Security Subcommittee of the Danang Department of Information & Communications
- Nguyen Dinh Anh Tu (K21 TMT), DevSecOps Engineer at FPT HCMC
- Do Bao Linh (K14), BA Leader at Nals Solutions
- Ha Ngoc Chung (K16), Founder & CEO at DOKE.
The phrase “training on demand” has become common at DTU, as many companies now visit the university to “order” their manpower, from the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group, FPT, the Vietnam Cybersecurity Emergency Response Teams (VNCERT), provincial departments of information & communications in Central Vietnam and the Central Highlands, and the Authority of Information Security at the Ministry of Information & Communications, offering a unique opportunity for DTU students to find excellent jobs, even before graduation.
(Media Center)