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 BernardinoGeorgetown UniversitySouthern Polytechnic State UniversityThe University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaUniversity of Arkansas at Little RockUniversity of DenverUniversity of Missouri – ColumbiaUniversity of Nevada, Las VegasWest Chester University of PennsylvaniaWest Virginia UniversityAir Force Institute of TechnologyCalifornia State Polytechnic University, PomonaDePaul UniversityEast Carolina UniversityNew Mexico TechNortheastern UniversityNova Southeastern UniversityOklahoma State UniversityPolytechnic UniversityThe University of Texas at San AntonioTowson UniversityUnited States Air Force AcademyUniversity at Buffalo, the State University of New YorkUniversity of Maryland University CollegeUniversity of Nebraska at Omaha
Watch this space for more on information security education and where to find the right people.
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