Dr. Alves-Foss receiving
the National Security Agency Center of Excellence re-designation June 7th, 2005
Recent Security Updates for UI from CSDS Faculty
August 2003
suggestions for secure
computer use from Dr. Frincke, Dr. Oman, and ITS staff at UI!
NSF
Cyber Service News Stories
A
few of the stories concerning the Cyber Service Corp are found at the
following websites: ITworld.com,
GovExec.com
, Government Computer
News, USA
Today, ZDnews,
Wired,
digitalMASS,
and Mondadori.com
(in Italian).
Information Assurance Education News
Through
the efforts of the CSDS, UI was revalidated as a
Center
of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education. Read the
NSA press release
and the new list of certified
institutions that includes UI.
UI
News Release on the NSF Cyber Service Scholarships
The
University of Idaho is one of just six schools in the United States to
receive funds from the National Science Foundation to provide scholarships
for students entering the field of computer security and information assurance.
NSF
Director Rita Colwell announced $8.6 million in scholarship awards May
22 at the fifth National Colloquium for Information System Security Education
at George Mason University’s Fairfax, Va., campus.
The
UI will receive $1.4 million to support approximately 30 undergraduate
and graduate students majoring in information assurance and computer security.
In exchange for the $20,000-per-year scholarship, the student agrees to
work for the federal government in computer security for one year for
each year of scholarship-funded education.
“This
award reflects the high quality of the University of Idaho’s programs
in the area of computer security and information assurance,” said UI Provost
Brian Pitcher. “It will help attract top achievers from throughout the
Pacific Northwest to a field of national importance and to the UI.”
John
Dickinson, of the University of Idaho computer science department, is
the principal investigator for the award. “This grant will enable the
University of Idaho to help supply computer professionals in the extremely
important area of computer security,” he said.
The
other schools receiving funds for scholarships are Carnegie Mellon, Iowa
State University, the Naval Postgraduate School, Purdue University and
the University of Tulsa. All six schools have been named Centers for Excellence
by the National Security Agency.
The
new scholarship responds, in part, to a 1997 presidential commission formed
to answer critical information system infrastructure protection issues.
Later this summer, NSF will expand its effort by offering a second round
of awards for activities that help faculty to learn about the most recent
advances in information assurance and computer security to improve their
classroom instruction.
