Champaign Cybersecurity

The center for cyber defense education and research has been the driving force behind the effort that resulted in the designation of the university of illinois at urbana champaign as a center of academic excellence in information assurance cyber defense education by the national centers of academic excellence program an outreach program initially designed and operated by the national security agency nsa in the spirit of presidential decision directive 63 national policy on critical.
Champaign cybersecurity. Cybercorps illinois illinois cyber security scholars program icssp icssp is now accepting applications for fall 2020. Links to the application forms are below. An admitted full time undergraduate or graduate student on the urbana champaign campus. University of illinois at urbana champaign 1308 west main st urbana il 61801 2307 1 217 333 3546.
Phase 1 the first phase will consist of a cyberstrength assessment that will ask a variety of questions designed to gauge your understanding of cybersecurity topics. Every internet user has a role to play in securing cyberspace and ensuring the safety of themselves and their families online. The most serious economic and national security challenges we face are cyber threats. Icssp is recruiting qualified college of engineering and school of information science students who are planning on specializing in cybersecurity and privacy.
Illinois is a center of academic excellence. Chamber s national security and emergency preparedness department was established in 2003 to develop and implement the chamber s homeland and national security policies. It offers a range of valuable educational resources including the nsa center for information assurance education and research. The university of illinois at urbana champaign illinois is one of the first universities to partner with nsa on researching the science of security and has been working on cybersecurity problems with nsa for more than 19 years.
The cybersecurity division at ncsa is composed of researchers developers and specialists who work to advance the state of the art of cybersecurity apply those advances to key science and engineering user communities and protect ncsa s networks and substantial computing resources. Illinois cyber security scholars program icssp the information trust institute iti at the university of illinois at urbana champaign is an interdisciplinary research center addressing all aspects of information trust. National security agency nsa and university of illinois at urbana champaign illinois working together for more than 19 years on cybersecurity research and deepening the scientific understanding of the design of trusted systems.