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Nsa Expands Academic Cyber Initiative
The NSA is expanding its National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations program, which aims to educate students on how they could help defend the United States against cyberattacks.
Credit: U.S. National Security Agency
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has added the Air Force Institute of Technology, Auburn University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Mississippi State University to its National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations program.
The academic cyberinitiative is a technical program that seeks to better educate students on how they could help defend the U.S. against cyberattacks. The schools will be able to offer a special summer teaching program in which participants who undergo background checks and obtain temporary top-secret security clearances can engage in a 10-week internship.
Given the recent scrutiny of NSA, officials say ethics are a key part of the curriculum. "Cyberskills are increasingly important in national defense, but it's even more important to operate as responsible citizens in the use of such skills," says NSA technical leader Steven LaFountain.
Dakota State University, the Naval Postgraduate School, Northeastern University, and the University of Tulsa also are participants in the program.
The goal of the Cyber Operations program is to make U.S. national information infrastructure less vulnerable by promoting high tech, interdisciplinary higher-education programs that promote education and research in information assurance, while boosting the number of qualified professionals with this expertise across disciplines.
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