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NSA/DHS Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education

For Four-Year (CAE-CDE)& Two-Year (CAE2Y)

Institutions

November 2015

NSA/DHS CAE Goal

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Reduce vulnerability in our national information infrastructure by promoting higher education and research in CD and

producing a growing number of professionals with

CD expertise in various disciplines.

• Knowledge Unit (KU)

– A detailed list of course topics and expected outcomes

Terminology

• Fundamental core KUs: 11

– Apply to CAE 2Y and CAE CD

• Secondary core KUs: 6

– Apply to CAE CD

• Optional KUs: 47

– CAE IA/CD Required to map to 5

CAE Knowledge Unit RequirementsCAE CD & CAE2Y

* List of KUs can be found at www.iad.gov/NIETP/CAERequirements.cfm

CAE Program RequirementsCAE CD & CAE2Y

• Letter of Intent

• Cyber Defense “Center”

• Cyber Defense Academic Program

• Student Research (4Y)

• Cyber Defense Faculty

• Cyber Defense is Multidisciplinary

• Institution Security Plans

• Outreach

* Criteria can be found at www.iad.gov/NIETP/CAERequirements.cfm

Letter of Intent

• Identify POC

• Institutional Support

• Accreditation Information

• Any Pertinent Accomplishments

Cyber Defense “Center”

• Formal Documentation of Center Institutional Support of Center, Signed by a Dean or Higher

• Operational Link Website content: Program guidance; CD information; Collaboration,

Cyber activities; CD resources; Conferences; Workshops; Competitions; News articles; etc.

Cyber Defense Academic Program

• Identify Department(s)

• Identify a clearly defined course path that map to core KUs + Focus Area KUs if identified. Choose best path, do not map multiple paths, additional paths can be explained in the comment section. Students must take that path!

• Provide evidence that students take those courses that map to the KUs (transcript, completion letter, certificate, etc.)

• Provide student enrollment/graduation in program for last 3 years

• Identify publications available to students in syllabus

Student Research (4Y)

• Research papers/projects by students, actual links – 5 to 10 papers Must be from students in the course of study identified in criteria 2

• Physical/Virtual Labs (Criteria 2 for 2Y) Description of labs

Samples of lab projects or exercises

• Courses that require labs List of courses the require labs

Link to labs from course syllabus

Cyber Defense Faculty• Head of Cyber Defense program of study

Job description

CV or biography must identify that they teach at the applying institution

• Additional Full-time faculty

Not identified above

Shows depth and sustainability of program of study

CV or biography must identify that they teach at the applying institution

• Part-time or Adjunct

Additional faculty from other departments

Industry experts

CV or biography must identify that they teach at the applying institution

Cyber Defense Faculty (4Y Only)• Faculty Publications

Peer reviewed publications within 3 years, actual – not subscription service

• Books or chapters of books Within 5 years; title, author, date; chapters

• Presentations Presentations at Cyber conferences within 3 years. Includes guest lecturer at

government organizations or academic institutions

• Professional Societies Subject matter expert for professional societies, accrediting bodies, etc. Active in Cyber

organizations. Within 3 years of application

• Grants Evidence of grants

• Support to Student activities Mentor for student clubs, exercises, etc.

• Cyber concept taught in other fields of study Courses must be in a department separate from submitted program

path; preferably non-technical like business, criminal justice, etc.

Syllabus required with cyber content highlighted

• Non-cyber courses encourage papers or projects Courses submitted above require papers or projects

Link to 5 to 10 actual papers, not subscription service; or substantial projects that have highlighted cyber content.

Must be from at least 2 separate courses

Cyber Defense is Multidisciplinary

Institution Security Plans

• Security plans and policies Links to plans and policies to show institutional security practices

• Cyber Security/Information Security Officer Name, title, job description

• Implementation Evidence of security practices

Awareness, training, tutorials for faculty, staff and students

User acknowledgements

On-line help

Etc.

Outreach• Shared Curriculum/Faculty

Examples; MOAs; collaboration; course info; etc.

• Reciprocity of credits Written agreements

• Sponsorship/participation in Exercises or Competitions Flyers; website rosters; emails from organizers; pictures; etc.

• CAE Collaboration

• Business/Industry Collaboration Internships?

Speakers

• Community Outreach Help for the community at large

64 CAE-R, 126 CAE-CDE, and 39 CAE-2Y, totaling 191 CAEs (40 are both CDE and R)in 44 states + District of Columbia and Commonwealth of Puerto Ricohttps://www.iad.gov/NIETP/reports/cae_designated_institutions.cfm

SC - 1

1

MI

5

KS

3

AL

9

IL

8

PR - 1

VA

7

-NJ - 6

-DE - 1

MN

6

TX

15

AZ

4

OH

4

PA - 7

FL

8

GA

4

IA

1

CA

10

NY

10

-MD – 16

- DC – 2

-MA – 3

-RI - 1

LA

3

OK

6NM

2

AK WA

4

ID

2

NVCO

5

SD

1

NE

2

MO

1

AR

2

IN

4

MS

1

TN - 4

WV

1

NC - 6

VT

2- NH - 1

- CT - 1

UT

1

OR

2

KY- 2

ME

1

HI - 2

WY

MT ND

WI

• CAE Program Office

askcaeiae@nsa.gov

• Website Application

https://www.iad.gov/NIETP/index.cfm

Resources and Requirements; Obtain account

• ATE Centers

National CyberWatch Center - www.cyberwatchcenter.org/

CyberWatch West – www.cyberwatchwest.org/

CSSIA - http://www.cssia.org/

• CAE Community

www.caecommunity.org

Resources