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Department of Information Security
Head of Information Security Department
Kozhakhmetov Kainarbek Baltabaevich
The Information Security Department was introduced into the state of NUO by order of the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 1/14/1/017 of 06/08/2017 in the light of the implementation of the Information Security Concept of the Republic of Kazakhstan, was staffed by specialists with appropriate education and training.
In September 2017, the first recruitment of undergraduates to the department in the amount of 8 people was made.
In August 2018, a master's program using distance educational technologies was opened at the department and the first set of undergraduates with the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the amount of 3 people was made.
According to the qualification requirements of the customer of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan, represented by the Main Directorate for the Protection of State Secrets of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the purpose of the department is to prepare a graduate in the specialty of Management in military affairs with the qualification "Management of Cybersecurity and Information Security Systems", designed to fill management and administrative posts of state defense units secrets and information security (cyber units) in the operational strategic com, operational and territorial and operational-tactical AF RK government.
A graduate in accordance with basic and specialized training can perform the following functions at the objects of professional activity:
prediction of cyberattacks (computer attacks), their assessment and classification for threats to the military security of the state and information (cyber) security of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
planning, designing and creating a cybersecurity system at the objects of information and communication infrastructure in everyday activities, as well as in the preparation and during the conduct of hostilities;
operation of the cybersecurity system at a level that ensures the protection of information resources of governing bodies;
continuous improvement of the elements of the cybersecurity system in order to maintain its relevance to modern challenges and threats;
the creation, operation and improvement of an information protection system at information and communication infrastructure facilities in everyday activities, as well as in the preparation and during the conduct of hostilities;
planning and organizing work to ensure the secrecy regime, identify channels of information leakage, conduct measures to comprehensively counteract technical intelligence, prevent the disclosure of special importance, top secret and secret information, and also achieve secrecy in the activities of troops;
the organization of measures to ensure the security of communications, covert command and control of troops (forces), ensure the security of the use of classified communications and identification equipment;
conducting research and military research on cybersecurity and protecting state secrets.
In April 2019, according to the organizational staffing activities, the department became part of the faculty of digital technologies and the security of information systems of NGOs.
Since 2019, the selection of undergraduates is awakened in the specialty 7M12104 Cybersecurity and information security systems in military affairs "Management of cybersecurity and information protection systems" in the amount of 8 people.
All teachers of the department have specialized basic and postgraduate education (Krasnodar Higher Military School, A. Budyonny Military Academy of Communications, National Defense University).
The department teaches 8 disciplines:
Information Confrontation
Building a secure information infrastructure of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Organization and management of integrated information security
Cybersecurity management
Cyber security audit of military information systems
Cryptographic methods of information security
Organization for the Protection of State Secrets
Organization of covert troop control
The classrooms of the department are equipped with office equipment in sufficient quantities.
An information security research laboratory was created on the basis of the NUO for carrying out practical work with the graduate students of the department on the use of software and hardware and software for information protection (firewall, intrusion detection and prevention system, information leakage prevention system, information security event management system, etc.


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Guadagnino's remake of Argento's 1977 classic 'Suspiria' presents Dakota Johnson under shades of grey
Guadagnino brings in the urban aesthetics instead of going all-in color splashes, like his predecessor Argento.
Although the Oscars still do not have a separate category for 'The Best Color Palette in a Movie', yet color palette plays an integral part bringing out the essence of characterization in a movie.
Nothing can better explain the statement other than the works of two great Italian filmmakers, Dario Argento and Luca Guadagnino.
There is a lot of hype going on about Guadagnino's remake of Argento's 1977 masterpiece 'Suspiria'. 'Suspiria's is the first part of Argento's the Three Mothers trilogy- the other two parts being 'Inferno' and 'The Mother of Tears'. Argento's movies are based on Thomas de Quincey's 1845 series of psychological fantasy essays, 'Suspiria de Profundis'.
Thomas de Quincey mentions that just like the three ladies of Merci and Fate, there are three ladies of Sorrow: Mater Lacrymarum (Our Lady of Tears), Mater Suspirium (Our Lady of Sighs), and Mater Texebrarum (Our Lady of Darkness). While Argento has projected the three ladies, combining with the lore of the Three Mothers, in three separate parts, Guadagnino seems to have projected all three in one.
Both the directors have presented the tale of witchcraft through the use of distinctive layers of colors and overlapping music. But both have added some signature features to their films. Guadagnino puts his characters against a backdrop of a more sullen Italy, as compared to Argento's color-splashed Italy. Guadagnino's trailer gives a quick of glimpse the movie which more or less seems to follow a more moody, effective and vague play of colors.
Predominantly in grey, there are only a few glimpses of red which was a predominant color in Argento's movie. The ominous and dreadful scheme of events is dropped on a more muted color palette, tinged with slates of greys, muddy browns, and cold blues. The darkness prevails throughout with the dull palette as compared to Argento's all-in color scheme.
In Argento's film, cinematographer Luciano Tovoli uses the primary colors red, blue and green, to let the audience identify with the more general flow of life. When Suzy, the protagonist of the film (played by Jessica Harper in Argento's version), arrives at the airport the bright flashes of yellow and red immediately give the audience an otherworldly effect.
Tovoli has explained that the audience is at once transported to the world of fantasy and witchcraft the moment they come across such vibrant colors, almost convincing them that it is an unreal projection of the world that they live in. Yellow serves the purpose of contaminating the other colors, to establish Suzy's confused states of mind.
Guadagnino, however, chose to stick with the dominance of more urban aesthetics, where the characters' pale skins are left in sync with the gun-metal palette. In a scene from the trailer, where Dakota Johnson (who plays the character of Suzy in Guadagnino's version) looks straight into the camera, the pebble colored wall behind and the crimson-colored straps of her top flare up her pale face and red locks of hair.
Probably to keep the remake closer to the original, there are certain moments where red dominates the palette. However, the palette chiefly seems to consist of graphite, ash, charcoal, pebble, and iron- the colors that are mostly used to present the 21st Century urban lifestyle.
Argento's film was much inspired by the Technicolor grandeur of Disney's 'Snow White' (1937), focusing on a rich palette with the primary hues and deep blacks.
Tovoli also says, "To immediately make Suspiria a total abstraction from what we call 'everyday reality,' I used the usually reassuring primary colors only in their purest essence, making them immediately, surprisingly violent and provocative."
Jessica Harper's face, with her bright wide eyes, provides a perfect look of anxiety on the frame when Tovoli carefully throws bright lights her way. It shone brilliantly as her face was lit up laterally, adding perspective to the paranormal situation that she finds herself in. Such contrasts are not prevalent in Guadagnino's film. It seems to concentrate more on the situation and the scenery, which are set against dim lighting and sometimes overhead beams.
Music plays a chief role in creating the atmosphere of a horror film. Argento's film was scored by the Italian progressive rock band, Goblin, which served as an eerie disconnect from the visual, as though the characters were already surrounded by the shadow of some lurking evil.
Radiohead's Thom Yorke's score for Guadagnino's film is more droning, atonal, at once pulling in the audience for a series of frightful events. Yorke seems to have drawn inspiration from the 'Blade Runner' soundtrack which was composed by Vangolis.
Probably Guadagnino's plot will differ in certain places, as there is a shot where the Three Mothers' names flash on the screen and an old man stands looking at the picture of a missing girl. Tilda Swinton who has been Guadagnino's muse for his previous two movies 'A Bigger Splash' and 'I am Love', will be seen returning as probably the headmistress of the prestigious German Academy, Tanz Dance Academy. Guadagnino's has been known throughout for his sun-splashed scenes and his bright play of colors. It will be interesting to see him project a story in the full-metal grey jacket.

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And, honestly, bait-and-switch is so common with Internet startups, they must teach it somewhere.
Yes they do. It's called growth hacking.
I will acknowledge I have been in rooms where these concepts are taught, and I have been witness to blatant instruction towards really unethical deception.
It's weird to be in a room where everyone laps it up without thinking through the broader ethics. I'm all for clever growth tactics, but when there is an obvious victim in the scenario it's fairly ludicrous.
There's gray area in that things do need to change, and sometimes a segment of a userbase can be affected negatively. But the way it's taught rarely offers concern for all of this.
It's quite difficult to question all this when you're someone desperate for traffic. Worryingly, we're seeing other industries like the gaming industry also applying these ideas. Fortunately, there are others out there who are writing about alternatives to "growth hacking" (ironically hosted at Medium). Perhaps we could serve the community better by offering and researching alternatives.
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Cushendall ace Arron Graffin urges team-mates to seize day
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ARRON GRAFFIN has urged his Ruairi Og team-mates to seize the moment in Croke Park on Thursday as the north Antrim men face Munster kingpins Na Piarsaigh in their first-ever All-Ireland final.
Neither Cushendall or Na Piarsaigh have reached this lofty stage before with the Antrim champions losing eight previous semi-finals to Na Piarsaigh's two. Graffin, who has played in three All-Ireland semi-finals and is one of the leaders in the Ruairi Ogs line-up, is hoping the younger members of the squad take this historic chance with both hands.
"I've played in three All-Ireland semi-finals," he said.
"I played against Loughrea in 2006 - I was 18 - and I played against De La Salle a couple of years later when I was 20. We're trying to drum into the younger boys that this doesn't come around too often. I'm now 27, so that's a long chunk of your career over.
"A few of the boys are lucky in terms of their age: Ryan McCambridge is 20, Eoghan Campbell is 21, David Kearney is the same age. They're young lads and they're going to play in an All-Ireland final."
Despite semi-final heartache in previous seasons, Graffin dreamed of reaching the biggest stage with his club: "It's the stuff you dream of," said the teak-tough defender.
"You believe you can. You believe that the team is good enough. I remember in 2009 when we played De La Salle when we should have beaten them - but it was should've, could've - but as this year has gone on we were getting stronger and we believed we could reach an All-Ireland final. It was a dream to win that semi-final against Sarsfields, but the dream is not over yet. We're hoping we get the fairytale ending that we're looking for."
The Irish News sports team weigh up Thursday's All-Ireland club hurling final:
Only last season the Ruairi Ogs were licking their wounds from suffering a surprise loss to Down champions Portaferry in the Ulster final: "That was heartbreaking defeat," Graffin recalled.
"They blew us out of the water. They did to us what we wanted to do to them. That winter was tough. So it was great to win Ulster again. Slaughtneil was a massive battle, a huge game for us and we came through it.
"We've been behind in all of our games, apart from the Sarsfield's game. I didn't play in the St John's game, I played in the Loughgiel games and the Ballycastle game when we came from behind.
"But for the full 60 minutes-plus the most satisfying would have to be that Slaughtneil game. It was a great one to come through and we came through the semi-final well and we're going into this final full of confidence. Na Piarsaigh have never been to this stage either."
Graffin has been nursing a troublesome knee injury for most of the season and while he had it heavily strapped in the All-Ireland semi-final win over Sarsfield's, he says he's 100 per cent fit and has benefited greatly from the five-week gap between the semi-final and Thursday's final.
"It was strapped up more for peace of mind but all the rehab was done and I felt 100 per cent during the semi-final. I did a lot of work over the winter and even the break between the semi-final and the final has given me more time. I feel grand, I feel fit and excited."
Graffin says the highlight of his career was hearing the final whistle in Navan on February 6 after Cushendall had qualified for their first-ever All-Ireland final: "Somebody asked me what was it like at the final whistle after the semi-final, I could only describe it as the best day in my life and the next best day is coming up on St Patrick's Day.
"It just meant so much to the club and trying to get to a final so many times; it meant so much to the parish, the club, the supporters, the players." I couldn't believe when we arrived in Cushendall that night. The wind was blowing and the crowd that was there was something that I'd never seen, even after winning county championships.
"We had a great couple of days but we were back down to earth – we were back in training on the Thursday. We're in territory we've never been in before but it's a good place to be at."


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Market Research Associate - BRM Investor Development (12 month contract) - London
Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Fitch Group is comprised of: Fitch Ratings, a global leader in credit ratings and research; Fitch Solutions, an industry-leading provider of credit risk products and services; and Fitch Learning, a preeminent training and professional development firm. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.
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This role of the Investor Development team within Fitch is to promote the agency's research among investors with a view to driving demand for Fitch Ratings and, in conjunction with the separate sales team, demand for Fitch research and related products.
The team is tasked with raising the profile of Fitch research and ratings commentary to all market constituents and encouraging a greater investor engagement with Fitch ratings, research, products and services. This increase in profile and engagement will be quantified by a broad range of metrics.
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Run performance reports for the various marketing campaigns the Investor Team manages.
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Identifying pertinent research, preparing customised messages, and distributing targeted emails to the relevant investor audiences. Preparing detailed agendas and background material ahead of investor outreach meetings and tours.
Writing marketing materials, pitch books and presentations with guidance of senior team members.
Providing the Events team with lists of invitees for hosted client events, attending the events on the day as required and following up afterwards with any resulting enquiries for the IDT team.
Providing support for other team members in the course of their outreach: preparing agendas for tours, materials for meetings, chasing attendees for events and entering information into the CRM database where required.
Assisting in analysing and reporting readership of Fitch research.
Maintaining the contact database and preparing activity reports periodically and for ad-hoc project requirements. Ensuring consistency in approach across the EMEA region in liaison with local IDT representatives and with other BRM teams.
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The starting date for this position will be in Q4.
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A frequent mutation at codon 97 of human hepatitis B virus core antigen has been shown to cause an "immature secretion" phenotype, featuring nonselective and excessive secretions of virions containing immature viral genome. Our current study demonstrates that this abnormality can be efficiently offset by another frequent core mutation, P130T.
Hotspot mutations of the human hepatitis B virus (HBV) core antigen gene (HBcAg) have been identified in HBV chronic carriers, such as mutations at codons 5, 13, 59, 60, 87, 97, 130, and 182 (1, 13). Among these hotspots, codon 97 has the highest mutation frequency (1, 3, 6-8, 11-15, 20, 22-24,26, 28-31), changing from a phenylalanine (F) or isoleucine (I) into a leucine (L). From earlier studies, it has been observed that the wild-type hepadnavirus DNA replicative intermediates can be enveloped and secreted as virions only after completion of the minus-strand DNA synthesis or initiation of plus-strand synthesis (10, 25). However, we recently reported that the acquisition of a leucine residue at codon 97 (97L) of HBcAg enabled the virus to secrete an excessive amount of immature genome with nascent incomplete single-strand DNA (ssDNA) in an envelope-dependent manner (33, 34). This immature secretion phenomenon is subtype independent, since it can occur in the genetic context of either ayw or adrsubtypes, as long as the core gene contains a leucine residue at amino acid 97 (34).
Hepadnavirus immature secretion does not appear to be limited to the tissue culture system. For example, it was observed in vivo in woodchuck hepatitis B virus in one woodchuck treated with acyclovir (27). The mechanism of such drug-induced immature secretion remains unclear. Most recently, virion-like particles containing an abundant level of immature ssDNA were also found in sera containing snow geese hepatitis B viruses (SGHBV) (4), suggesting that immature secretion could also be found in avian hepadnaviruses in vivo. Whether such an immature secretion phenotype of SGHBV is simply a species-specific feature or is caused by naturally occurring mutations remains unclear. As demonstrated in HBV, it could be encoded entirely by a single missense mutation within the core gene (33, 34) or equally likely by mutations within the envelope or polymerase genes. So far, immature secretion of virions has been observed in several different hepadnaviruses in vivo and in culture.
Besides the 97L mutation, another frequent missense mutation occurs at codon 130 of HBcAg in patients (1, 3, 6-8, 11-15, 20, 22-24,26, 28-31). According to the published data compiled from 19 independent studies with 96 reported HBcAg sequences from 66 hepatitis B patients, the proline-to-threonine change (P130T) is the most frequent mutation at codon 130 (67 of 96 [70%]). Approximately 30% (29 of 96) of mutations at codon 130 of HBcAg in chronic carriers change from proline (P) to amino acids other than threonine (T). At a closer examination, we noted that the P130T mutation is frequently associated with the occurrence of mutation I97L (50 of 67 [75%]), although it also can occur by itself (17 of 67 [25%]). Note that in some reports, direct sequencing of total HBV DNA without cloning was used. In that case, only one HBV sequence was obtained from one patient. Because HBV variant populations often exist as a mixture in the same individual, we chose to best present the association between these two mutations quantitatively by the number of independent clones rather than by the number of patients. To date, the functional significance of mutation P130T, alone or in association with the mutation 97L, remains unclear. In this study, we examined the capability of DNA replication and virion secretion of the naturally occurring single (P130T) and double (I97L/P130T) mutants.
We introduced a P-to-T change to a wild-type HBV (subtypeadr) at codon 130 of HBcAg (Altered Sites II In Vitro Mutagenesis Systems; Promega) (17). The P130T mutation was created by using the oligonucleotide 5′-TCG CAC TCC TAC CGC TTA CAG-3′. The mutant P130T monomer was subsequently dimerized (pP130T) as described elsewhere (34). To test the effects of the mutation P130T in association with the mutation I97L, the double mutant pI97L/P130T was created by introducing the P130T mutation into mutant I97L (34).
The intracellular core-associated HBV DNA was purified 7 days posttransfection and assayed by Southern blot analysis (Fig.1). The total HBV specific replication signals were more or less similar among pWt, pP130T, pI97L, and pI97L/P130T. However, we noted that HBV DNA migrating near the 4.0-kb position, which is predominantly the near-full-length relaxed-circle (RC) form, is more enriched in mutant P130T than the other three genotypes. Although the increase in the degree of intracellular genome maturity is small in mutant P130T, it is reproducible from experiment to experiment. We compared the intensity on the X-ray film between the RC and double-strand linear (DL) forms versus the intensity of full-length ssDNA at the 1.5-kb position (33). Our measurement revealed an increased proportion of the near-full-length RC DNA of mutant P130T at the 4.0-kb position by two- to threefold (2.5 ± 0.6; an average of three independent experiments).
The media of each of the transfected cultures were collected and examined for their respective secretion profiles of virion particles, according to their buoyant density, by cesium chloride gradient centrifugation. Each fraction was assayed for its immunoreactivity by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay specific for HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) and e or core antigen (HBeAg or HBcAg, respectively) (Fig.2A) as well as for its degree of genome maturity by Southern blot analysis (Fig. 2B). The gradient distributions of HBsAg and HBcAg or HBeAg are similar among these four different genotypes (Fig. 2A). Likewise, the HBV DNA profiles of the naked core particle fractions are similar among these four different genotypes (Fig. 2B). Consistent with the intracellular results in Fig.1, secreted mutant P130T viruses have a more enriched full-length RC-form DNA at the 4.0-kb position than the wild-type control. Perhaps, the most surprising finding to us is that the immature secretion pattern of mutant I97L appeared to be "cured" by the second mutation, P130T, in the genotype I97L/P130T (Fig. 2B).
As described previously (33), the maturity of the HBV DNA genome can be operationally defined as the ratio of RC-form DNA (the signals from the 4.0-kb position to the position right above the 1.5-kb ssDNA form) to ssDNA (the signals at and below the 1.5-kb position). As shown in Fig. 2B, the degree of genome maturity (RC/ssDNA ratio) of the wild type is 14-fold higher than that of mutant I97L (9.7/0.7). When mutation I97L is accompanied by mutation P130T in double mutant I97L/P130T, the RC/ssDNA ratio increased by about 10-fold more than that of the single mutant I97L (8.0/0.7), which is nearly 83% (8.0/9.7) of the level of the wild type (77% ± 6% of the wild-type level in three independent experiments) (Fig. 2B).
Our current study focused on the adr subtype, since few mutations at HBcAg codon 130 have been reported in the aywsubtype. Interestingly, in one longitudinal study of two chronic active hepatitis patients, the viral genomes in the sera acquired mutation I97L before the P130T mutation (i.e., mutant I97L emerged before mutant I97L/P130T) (14). It is conceivable that mutation P130T probably occurred later in patients to offset the immature secretion effect of the I97L mutation, which could have been acquired earlier through an independent mechanism such as immune escape. At present, it remains unclear if additional amino acid changes of HBcAg, other than at positions 97 and 130, could affect the compensatory property of the 130T mutation: e.g., mutants with double mutations at both codons 97 and 130 reported in references 1, 3, 6-8, 11-15, 20, 22-24,26, and 28-31 might contain additional mutations. Note that the mutations at codon 97 often change from an isoleucine to a leucine (L) in the adr/w subtype or from a phenylalanine to a leucine in the ayw subtype.
Artificially created compensatory mutations, which can restore the stem-loop structure of HBV encapsidation signal and thus the replication activity, have been reported (16, 18, 21, 32). Most recently, compensatory mutations for the replication of 3TC drug-resistant polymerase variants have been reported (2, 5, 9,19). To the best of our knowledge, this double mutation, I97L/P130T, is the first example of a naturally occurring compensatory mutation of the human HBV without any drug treatment. Further studies of the intramolecular compensatory mutations, such as I97L/P130T, could lead to a better understanding of the factors involved in plus-strand DNA synthesis and genome maturation, in addition to viral evolution and the structure-function relationship of HBcAg in virion secretion.
We thank colleagues in C. Shih's laboratory for careful reading of the manuscript.
This study was mainly supported by NIH grants RO1 CA 70336 and CA 84217 to C.S.
- Received 17 December 1999.
- Accepted 17 February 2000.
- Copyright © 2000 American Society for Microbiology


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