2. Fill in the blanks with the words given below.

1. Information protection is no longer just the …of the government.

2. It is in everyone’s interest to understand how to protect information from those threats and … that can be … to an organization’s existence.

3. Personal privacy is of … importance.

4. Having control of our personal information is … to our privacy.

5. Information protection training is one of the best ways to … sound information protection.

6. The training … is experienced teachers with experience in their areas of … .

expertise, key, vulnerabilities, staff, detrimental, achieve, purview, vital.

3. Make a sentence out of two parts.

1. In comparison with other specialities, trained at our University	1. Both general educational disciplines and new special subjects.
2. The right to privacy	2. Protect our independence, our ability to control our lives and our freedom to make our own decisions.
3. Protecting our privacy	3. Knowledge and skills in providing all types of network security.
4. Information protection training is one of the best ways	4. Is fundamental to any democratic society.
5. The educational program consists of	5. Ours is quite new.
6. The curriculum provides future protection professionals with	6. To achieve sound information.

4. Answer the questions on the text

1. When was the chair “Organization and Provision of Information protection” organized?

2. What was the reason for its foundation?

3. Information protection is the purview only of the government, isn’t it?

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the advances in technology?

5. Why is personal privacy of vital importance?

6. What economic backgrounds does information s protection give?

7. What subjects are the students taught?

8. What hat knowledge and skills does the curriculum provide?

9. What types of professional activity will the future graduates be able to perform?

10. What can you say about the teaching staff?

11. Why have you chosen this profession?

You may use the following words and word-combinations:

to influence a person in choosing a profession

be interested in

to follow smb’s advice

be good at something/ doing something.

5. Pretend one of you (Student A) is a school - graduate who cannot decide what he is going to be, but he is interested in computers and programming and another one (Student B) is a BSTU student. His speciality is Provision and Organization of Information protection. The student is trying to convince the school - graduate that his future job is very interesting and necessary.

Student A asks him for details about the institute, curriculum, training staff, etc.

6. Speak on the topic “Our Speciality is Organization and Provision of Information protection”. Part II

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