Markéta Petrtýlová is a graduate of the Bachelor's degree in Management Informatics and is now continuing her Master's studies at FIT CTU. Her bachelor thesis deals with the design, implementation, deployment and testing of an application for knowledge development in the field of social engineering. The thesis includes an analysis of the requirements of the company requesting the educational E-learning application and a description of the support of the company's employees during the deployment and first use of the application.
"I entered the competition to gain new experience and met successful students from other Czech universities. I appreciate the fact that I could meet interesting people from several different companies who became my mentors during the preparation for the competition and helped me to push my presentation skills one step further," said Markéta Petrtýlová.
Markéta is currently leading the Microsoft Student Coaching Center, a student organization from which she herself graduated some time ago. During her undergraduate studies she completed a six-month internship at Microsoft and worked part-time at companies such as IBM and MSD.
Eliška Helikarová is a graduate of the Bachelor's degree in Information Security and is now continuing her Master's studies at Faculty of Information Technology. Her final thesis deals with anonymity analysis of the CTU Poll, a web application used by CTU for internal evaluation of teaching. This application falls into the category of anonymous survey systems, which means that the data contained in the questionnaires submitted by students should not be associated with their identity. In this paper, anonymity analysis is conceived as a threat analysis using the LINDDUN model as the main methodology for modeling privacy threats.
"I was hesitant to enter the competition because I knew it would be challenging. But I don't regret it. I had a mentor who helped me prepare. It gave me valuable experience of presenting my own work in front of an audience, access to the SWE (Society of Women Engineers) community and the opportunity to make new contacts with people in practice. During the course of my work, I found some shortcomings in the application, which I reported to the application administrator. Among them was a serious vulnerability that was almost immediately fixed. So I am glad that my work had a real impact," said Eliška Helikarová.
However, studying at FIT was not the first university study for Eliška. She first studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and finished her studies in Iceland, where she spent the last 2 years of her studies and it was here that she started to do programming in her free time. She got so taken in it that after her return she applied to FIT CTU and became a successful graduate.