The Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) system is designed to provide institutions with an information assurance or computer security curriculum in a controlled, competitive environment to assess their student's depth of understanding and operational competency in managing the challenges inherent in protecting a corporate network infrastructure and business information systems. Applications for teams to participate in one of several Midwest 2013 State CCDC competitions are now being accepted. 

Access the Midwest CCDC Website Here 

CERT has published their academic curriculum for colleges and universities interested in teaching and building a comprehensive information assurance program.  It is free for qualified faculty on request (Click Here).

The CERT-SIA courses have been mapped to the national standards set by the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) for Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Professionals, NSTISSI 4011, and System Administrators (SA), CNSSI 4013, entry level meet approximately 95% of the objectives. Also, check out https://www.vte.cert.org/vteweb/. CERT's Virtual Training Environment has many wonderful asynchronous training modules in information assurance. See also CERT's Organizational Security page; lots of good info.

(NEW for 2012) Also, if you access and scroll CERT site www.cert.org/mswa/, you will see the following: Share Your Software Assurance Education Materials.

The Software Assurance (SwA) Education Project team is looking for materials to share with educators interested in adopting elements of the software assurance curricula. The team has developed the Master of Software Assurance (MSwA) Reference Curriculum that can be used to establish a graduate program or track, syllabi to support the development of courses to be used in an MSwA curriculum, undergraduate SwA course outlines, and SwA community college courses. While these materials can help educators get started in SwA education, more resources are needed to support wider adoption of undergraduate and graduate SwA courses, programs, and tracks. The team is seeking materials related to software assurance, including the following:

1. Case studies
2. Homework assignments
3. Examples
4. Lecture slides
5. Notes

Authors will retain their own copyright. Materials submitted will be subject to peer review for relevance to the SwA course topics. If selected, materials will either be posted as submitted on this page, or a link to the author's site will be posted. If you are interested in submitting materials to help support the SwA education community, please send them, along with an indication of the appropriate course and topic, to swa-education@sei.cmu.edu.

We encourage your collaboration. Our web resources are still under development so please contact us if you cannot find what you are looking for.

Contact the CSSIA Main Office M-F 8-3pm CST (708) 974-5725 or email Erich Spengler - Executive Director at spengler@morainevalley.edu for information.

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