IS&T Information Assurance
Nebraska University Center for
Information Assurance
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The UNO NUCIA Team
Ken Dick Robin Gandhi Dwight Haworth
Bill Mahoney Steve Nugen Leah Pietron Abhishek Parakh
Our IA team
(Needs shirt)
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Anyone know what Information Assurance IS?
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Information Assurance • IA education is supported across the college of
IS&T and the Graduate college – Designated by NSA as a National Center of
Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE IAE) since 2002
– Degrees include • BS in IA • MS in IA with 5-year combined BS/MS option • IA concentrations with CS and MIS
– Non-degree programs and activities include • MIS IA certificate
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IA Education • Program Started Fall 2000
– Currently have about 100 UG students – Currently 21 MS students – Some students choose an IA degree
• BS and/or MS in Information Assurance
– Some students choose double majors • IA and CS; IA and Math; IA and others
– Some students choose an IA concentration in their major study
• BS and/or MS in Computer Science with IA concentration • BS and/or MS in Management Information Systems with IA
concentration
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IA Education cont'd
• Course delivery includes lectures, labs, on-line, etc.
• IA students work in special "STEAL" rooms (Security Technology Education and Analysis Laboratories) – Generally self-contained, no Internet – Includes workstations, servers, virtual machines, just
about any/all operating systems, cameras – All users have Administrator/Root access – General rule: What happens in STEAL stays in STEAL
Hey Bill! Memo to self! We need new photos! Try to remember to bring camera before FDR meeting! Too late!
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Students
• We participate in the NSF Scholarship for Service (SfS) program – Have graduated 37 students through this program – SfS students receive a two or three year stipend +
tuition from NSF (three years for an integrated UG/Grad degree or a PhD)
– The students are required to do an internship with a federal, state, or tribal agency over the summers
– They then do a “payback” by working for an agency on a year-for-year basis (e.g. two year scholarship = two years of work)
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Students
• Our SfS students have gone on to: – NSA (10) – DOT Office of the Inspector General – Army: Global Net, several others – US-STRATCOM (4) – Treasury Department – Commerce Department (2) – Air Force – Sandia National Labs – Lots of others
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Enough Talk! Let’s Hack!
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Hands- on Ac4vity ‐
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