"LSU Receives Elite Cyber Designation From the National Security Agency"

The National Security Agency (NSA), the nation’s preeminent cybersecurity agency, has designated LSU as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations, or CAE-CO. LSU joins only 21 other universities and colleges in the U.S. with the designation, which is reserved for institutions capable of educating high-performing students and advancing operational technologies and techniques critical to intelligence, military, and law enforcement organizations. LSU is currently the only university in Louisiana to hold the CAE-CO designation. Some other schools with the CAE-CO designation include Carnegie Mellon, New York University, the Naval Postgraduate School, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the U.S. Naval Academy. Professor Golden G. Richard III, director of the LSU Applied Cybersecurity Lab and faculty lead for CAE-CO at LSU, stated that the designation will have at least two immediate impacts on LSU students and faculty. For students, this will magnetize LSU as a great choice to study very technical and applied cybersecurity. Importantly, it also gives LSU access to grants only available to CAE-CO schools. The professor also stated that the CAE-CO designation will immediately position LSU computer science students to secure internships at agencies like the NSA, CIA, FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security and make them among the most coveted cyber graduates.

LSU Media Center reports: "LSU Receives Elite Cyber Designation From the National Security Agency"