Relevance of the issue under study is due to the necessity of providing students of technical specialities (with low language level) with necessary translation skills. The purpose of the article is to develop a system of exercises for teaching scientific and technical translation for students of non-linguistic specialities in the program of continuing education “Translator in the sphere of professional communication”. The article outlines the opportunities how to use them in the teaching process. The leading approaches to the study are analyze and generalization of teaching experience of scientific and technical translation in Russian and foreign non-linguistic institutes of higher education, monitoring the activities of professional translators of scientific and technical texts, formation of methodical system of training when translating scientific and technical texts (from English into Russian). The results showed the absence of ideal teaching aids and special system of exercises that could be applied in preparation of translators in the field of “Information security”. The article may be useful for lecturers and for self-education of the general public.