Softline, together with Promising Monitoring, opened the Ampire Cyber ​ ​ Training Center in KGEU

2025: Ampire Cyber Learning Centre opens

Softline (PJSC Softline) has opened the Ampire Cyber ​ ​ Training Center. This time, the center was launched at Kazan State Energy University (KGEU) by the Softline team together with the Promising Monitoring company (part of InfoTeCS Group of Companies). The university will use the Ampire training platform to professionally train students in how to detect, analyze and address the effects of computer attacks. In addition, KGEU plans to use cyber policing to implement additional educational programs aimed at conducting research in the field of protecting energy systems, smart networks, metering devices and other critical facilities. Softline announced this on April 17, 2025.

Kazan State Energy University began its activities as a branch of NRU "MPEI." As of April 2025, the university is one of three centers for training specialists in the field of power.

Specialists of "Perspective Monitoring" carried out the implementation of the platform, as well as training KGEU teachers in working on the Ampire cyber police, who were told how to work with, software analyze events, information security monitor and determine. computer attacks Also, university employees learned how to configure and use funds, information protection close vulnerabilities, and eliminate consequences. cyber attacks

The opening of the Ampire Cyber ​ ​ Training Center took place on March 17, 2025 with the participation of the leadership and teaching staff of the KGEU, experts from Softline Group of Companies and Promising Monitoring, as well as representatives of the university's partner companies.

Of particular importance for us are projects that help universities to improve the quality of training of specialists in the field of information security. Therefore, we were pleased that KGEU acquired Ampire's solution for professional training in the detection, analysis and elimination of the consequences of computer attacks. Thanks to the equipped Cyber ​ ​ Training Center, as well as teachers trained to work on this platform, the university will be able to produce highly qualified personnel for digital power. In addition, Ampire's functionality will allow the university to use the solution both in teaching its students and preparing their theses, and in conducting cyber exercises for various organizations, which will contribute to the development of digital literacy, and therefore increase information security in the region, - commented Eduard Kovalenko, Director of Business Development at PFD Softline Group of Companies.

We consider the opening of each Ampire cyber police at the university to be an important event not only for a specific region, but for the information security industry as a whole. Universities have a big task - to eliminate the gap between theoretical and practical training of students. To reduce the shortage of qualified IB-personnel, universities must produce young specialists as ready as possible for work. Kazan State Energy University follows another important educational trend, which consists in the practical training of information security specialists with an industry bias, - said Sergey Neiger, director of business development at Promising Monitoring.

The opening of the Ampire Cyber Learning Center is an important stage in the development of the university's educational and scientific infrastructure. We thank our IT partners - Softline Group of companies and Perspective Monitoring - for their help in creating this advanced space. More than 11 thousand students study at our university, and we are glad to provide them with the opportunity to form their information security skills in accordance with the highest standards. We are confident that the center will become not only a platform for training highly qualified specialists, but also a center of attraction for innovative projects in the field of cybersecurity. In Ampire, in addition to a set of ready-made templates, it is possible to create your own. Therefore, our university, together with its partner, is going to create its own unique template for training specialists in the field of security of digital substations. Thus, on the basis of the Ampire Cyber ​ ​ Training Center, we plan to develop our training programs, as well as launch retraining programs on cybersecurity for employees of energy companies, "summed up Eduard Belyaev, director of the information technology department of KGEU.