"New Cybersecurity Education and Research Institute"

Washington State University (WSU) was selected to receive a $1.5 million Department of Defense (DOD) grant to set up a new cybersecurity education and research program. The Northwest Virtual Institute for Cybersecurity Education and Research (CySER) program establishes a cyber operations research and teaching center at WSU. This program includes a consortium of Pacific Northwest research partners from Central Washington University (CWU), Montana State University (MSU), Columbia Basin College (CBC), and the University of Idaho (UI). The program will train ROTC and DOD-skilled civilian workers in computer science and other areas regarding cyber basics, operations, or defense. They will be able to earn bachelor's degrees and specialized certificates. In addition, this effort will bring major Northwest institutions, industry, and national labs together for the first time to develop coordinated training with cyber-related courses, summer workshops, internships, research, a seminar series, and field trips to national labs. The delivery of training modules will involve enhanced teaching methods, such as teamwork, technical communication, hands-on problem-solving approaches, and more. Areas of research in CySER include cyber education, network security, information security, cyber-physical systems, quality assurance, software security, Machine Learning (ML), and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This article continues to discuss the structure and goals of the CySER program. 

Homeland Security News Wire reports "New Cybersecurity Education and Research Institute"