Application Security Development Lifecycle 4: Finding the right security talent
After about an hour of nodding his head vigorously in agreement with some of our lessons learnt, my customer jumped up and exclaimed, ” Great!! Now where do I find another 20 people like these?” (pointing to my team)…
I thought about it a while and so Mr. B here is your answer: Information security education has been pursued by several tertiary education (i.e. universities) for several decades now. In 1999, the NSA got into the act and issued a list of National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAEIAE) to 7 universities:
- James Madison University
George Mason University
Idaho State University
Iowa State University
Purdue University (No longer a CAE)
University of California at Davis ( I went to grad school here)
University of Idaho
These CAEs are accredited for 5 years and have to reapply for designation after that period. The CAEs were set up in an effort to promote higher education in information assurance, and in turn, increase the number of professionals with this critical expertise. NSA’s establishment of this program was based on the growing demand for professionals with information assurance expertise in various disciplines.
The current list of universities in this list include the original universities (except Purdue) and the following:
California State University, San Bernardino
Georgetown University
Southern Polytechnic State University
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
University of Denver
University of Missouri – Columbia
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
West Virginia University
Air Force Institute of Technology
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
DePaul University
East Carolina University
New Mexico Tech
Northeastern University
Nova Southeastern University
Oklahoma State University
Polytechnic University
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Towson University
United States Air Force Academy
University at Buffalo, the State University of New York
University of Maryland University College
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Watch this space for more on information security education and where to find the right people.
June 2, 2008 at 9:53 am
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