* Alert* Baker College Wins 2008 National CCDC Competition, San Antonio Texas
2008 Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (Click Here) The Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition allows institutions of higher education that offer an information assurance or computer security curriculum to assess their students' depth of understanding and operational competency in managing the challenges inherent in protecting an enterprise network infrastructure and business information systems.
 2008 Faculty Development
Registration is now open for the 2008 CSSIA CyberSecurity Workshops, Cisco Networking Academy CATC Instructor Training, and the Illinois Working Connections 2008 Faculty Development Institute. Several of the workshops are at no charge and others have nominal fees. Take a look, there is certain to be something for everyone!
 2008 Grant Opportunties
Small Grants for Institutions New to the ATE Program: The primary objective of this category of ATE Project grants is to increase the incentive and opportunity for community colleges that have little or no previous experience with the ATE program to undertake projects to improve science and engineering technician education programs or teacher preparation programs that focus on technological education.
CSSIA CERT-SIA Collaboration : 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 http://VTE.cert.org; 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.
CSSIA Informational Videos (New): Check out our informational videos CSSIA Education or CSSIA Outreach.
CSSIA Internship and Externship Participation Information: View Internship Information
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