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Government Sponsored Cybersecurity Education Programs

Government Sponsored Cybersecurity Education Programs. Mr. Steven LaFountain Distinguished Academic Chair for IA and Cyber Associate Directorate for Education and Training National Cryptologic School National Security Agency. GOAL of the CAE Programs.

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Government Sponsored Cybersecurity Education Programs

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  1. Government Sponsored Cybersecurity Education Programs Mr. Steven LaFountain Distinguished Academic Chair for IA and Cyber Associate Directorate for Education and Training National Cryptologic School National Security Agency

  2. GOAL of the CAE Programs Increase cyber human capital capacity by promoting higher education programs that will produce a large number of professionals with expertise in various disciplines related to cybersecurity.

  3. Existing CAE Programs • Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education • CAE IAE (graduate and undergraduate programs, based on curriculum) • CAE IA-Research (PhD programs doing high levels of theoretical research in IA) • CAE IAE 2Y (community college programs) • Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations

  4. Creating the CAE Cyber Operations Program • Leverage all that was good from the CAE IAE program • Technical content requirements not suitable • Input from practitioners across all types of CO jobs • Input from faculty at ~12 schools • Knowledge Units • Minimum list of topics • Objectives/Outcomes

  5. Updating the CAE IAE Program • Move to the Knowledge Unit Model • Done over a 6 month period via a series of in-person and web based meetings with faculty from over 70 of the existing CAE IAE schools • Introduce the Concept of Focus Areas • Adopt a modified process incorporating the on-site review • Transition to be complete by Jan 2015

  6. Moving Forward • KU and FA model provides flexibility for easy update as necessary • Need to institute a process by which government, academia and industry collaborate on future updates of the KUs and FAs • Allow anyone to suggest modifications to KUs and FAs • Allow anyone to suggest new KUs and FAs • Allow anyone to suggest that a KU or FA should be removed • Establish a panel that will meet at least 2 times per year to resolve any suggested changes/additions/deletions • Updates to KUs and FAs to be published on an annual basis and becoming effective the following year

  7. CyberSTARS • New program focusing on middle and high school students and teachers • Focusing on foundational topics • Cybersecurity awareness • Good programming practices • Sound design/engineering fundamentals • Done via summer camps hosted by CAE schools (2-6 weeks in length)

  8. Thoughts/Comments/Suggestions • CAE IAE, IA-R and IA 2Y AskCAEIAE@nsa.gov • CAE Cyber Operations AskCAECyberOps@nsa.gov • CyberSTARS smlafou@nsa.gov

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