Centers of academic excellence: a case study

• Published in: IEEE security & privacy Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 62 - 65
• Main Authors: Yasinsac, A., Burmester, M.
• Format: Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.01.2005; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Computer aided software engineering; Computer security; Computer viruses; Computer worms; Education; Educational institutions; Florida State University; Government; Information security; Internet; Laboratories; scholarship programs
• ISSN: 1540-7993; 1558-4046
• DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2005.8

The US National Security Agency's Centers of Academic Excellence (CAEs) in Information Assurance Education program is in its seventh year, and 59 educational institutions have received the coveted "CAE" designation. The program was originally designed to jump-start education of an information security workforce by providing incentives to academic institutions to form information assurance programs and to students by providing scholarships. It has since been augmented by scholarship programs from the US National Science Foundation and the US Department of Defense. Several hundred graduates from these scholarship programs are already in the federal workforce. Indeed, information security and assurance has quickly become an important topic in computer science departments worldwide, with increasing numbers of information security specialists earning associate, undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degrees in the subject