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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Center for Systems Security and Information Assurance
CSSIA the
first comprehensive IT security center in the Midwest joins forces with NIATEC
-- The National Information Assurance Training and Education Center.
April 15, 2004 --
The Informatics Research Institute and the National Information Assurance
Training Center (NIATEC) are proud to announce
a unique partnership with the Center for Systems Security and Information
Assurance (CSSIA).
This is the first partnership between a national center one of the important
regional centers in information assurance. This is a natural partnership.
- CSSIA addresses the needs for Information Technology security
professionals by increasing faculty expertise and higher education training
programs in IT security and data assurance.
CSSIA collects, categorizes, adapts, enhances, standardizes, and evaluates
curriculum and offer training programs to community colleges and university
faculty and students across the Midwest
- NIATEC is a consortium of academic, industry, and government
organizations to improve the literacy, awareness, training and education
standards in Information Assurance.
The NIATEC mission is to establish an effective Information Assurance
infrastructure for academic, industry and government organizations. It is
the national repository for information assurance training and education
center.
Professor Corey Schou, the director of the
NIATEC points out that this cooperative relationship will benefit both
community colleges and universities nation-wide. The
CSSIA schools are a cross section of
outstanding educational institutions. Their mission compliments the role of the
NAITEC in developing curriculum components.
The director of the CSSIA, Mr. Erich
Spengler directs a comprehensive center that brings together the efforts of
seven prominent regional institutions. The partnership with NIATEC makes state
of the art teaching materials available to our faculty and faculty development
efforts
Information Assurance awareness, training and education is an important
defensive component of protecting critical infrastructures world wide.
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