What does CAE / IAE Certification Mean?
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Howard University
Cybersecurity Research Center
Wayne Patterson
Director of the Cybersecurity
Research Center
November 28, 2011
Designation as a National Center of Excellence
In June of 2011, Howard University and its Cybersecurity Research
Center were designated by the National Security Agency as a:
Cemter of Academic Excellence in Informance Assurance Education
Known as “CAE/IAE”
Howard joins about 125 four-year institutions with this designation: see
http://www.nsa.gov/ia/academic_outreach/nat_cae/institutions.shtml
We will show what we had to demonstrate to gain this certification
… and what this will mean for Howard
Requirements to Meet
We had to demonstrate our capability in:
1. Outreach/Collaboration
2. Center for Information Assurance (IA) Education
3. IA Academic Program is Robust and Active
4. IA as a Multidisciplinary Science
5. Practice of IA Throughout the University
6. Student-based IA Research
7. Number of IA Faculty and Course Load
8. Faculty Active in Current IA Practice and Research
1.
Outreach/Collaboration
a. Shared curriculum
Created entire program at Voorhees
b. Reciprocity of credits
With 34 institutions, including 12 MSIs
c. Sponsorship of workshops
4, two NSF-sponsored
d. CAE Collaboration
Seminars at George Mason and Stevens
e. Community outreach
2. Center for IA Education
a. Formal documentation of designation
Created by Provost Wyche
b. Hyperlink
http://www.howard.edu/csl/index.htm
c. Web site is operational, dynamic, current
d. IA journals available online
All ACM and IEEE available
e. Physical and/or virtual IA labs available
Mathematica, Sage, WebGoat, Java
3. IA Academic Program is Robust and Active
Focus at the Bachelors level
Concentration in MIS bachelor’s program (~6 yrs)
Focus at the Masters’ level
Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity (7 yrs)
Focus at the PhD level
New PhD program in Computer Science approved
4. IA as a Multidisciplinary Science
Modules in non-IA Courses
International Studies, Law (2), Psych, Business (n)
Non-IA Courses encourage papers
Numerous referenced
5. Practice of IA Throughout the University
University IA security plan
Provided
ISSO
Provided
Implementation of security plan
http://www.howard.edu/policy/technology/computeruse.htm
http://www.howard.edu/technology/faculty.htm
http://www.howard.edu/technology/students.htm
6. Student-based IA Research
a. Student papers, theses, dissertations, projects
19 provided
b. List of courses that require such
5 provided
7. Number of IA Faculty and Course Load
a. Full-time faculty with leadership responsibilities
Two
b. Additional full-time faculty with some IA
Five
c. Shared faculty
Nine
8. Faculty Active in Current IA Practice and
Research
a. Peer reviewed publications
26 submitted
b. Published books or chapters
4 submitted
c. Grants/funding
13 submitted
D. Active in professional societies
Cyberwatch, ACM, IEEE
E. Student IA programs
One
F. Present at major conferences
10 submitted
What Will This Mean for Howard?
Now eligible for certain scholarship programs
NSF SFS, IASP, IA Capacity Building
Collaboration urged with other CAEs
Partnerships to date with Carnegie Mellon, George Mason,
New Orleans, Stevens, Tennessee-Chattanooga, Texas – El
Paso
Helps in research proposal submissions
Openings to national intelligence agencies
NSA, DHS, DOD, NSF, …