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Athens State receives designation for cyber defense education | Local News

riskacademy — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 15:53:09 +0000

Athens State University has received a national designation for one of its areas of study.

According to the university, the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security have designated the school as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education through the 2025 academic year for its bachelors of science degree in management of cybersecurity operations and minor in information systems management.

The university said the recognition has come as the result of two years of “specifically-targeted” work by Darren Waldrep, an instructor of information assurance management.

“The goal of the CAE-CD program is to reduce vulnerability in our national information infrastructure by promoting higher education and research in cyber defense and producing professionals with cyber defense expertise,” according to a release from Athens State. “It addresses the critical shortage of professionals with cybersecurity skills and highlights the importance of higher education as a…

Long-Awaited DFS Cyber Enforcement Action Sees Charges Filed Against Title Insurer For Exposing Millions of Documents Containing Consumer Personal Information | Hinshaw & Culbertson – Consumer Crossroads

riskacademy — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 23:15:51 +0000

After several years of anticipation, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has filed its first enforcement action under the agency’s groundbreaking and first-in-the-nation 2017 cybersecurity regulation (Part 500 of Title 23 of the New York Codes, Rules, and Regulations), which prescribes how financial services companies licensed to operate in New York should construct their cybersecurity programs. This action is a wakeup call to covered entities to fully implement the directives of Part 500.

A statement of charges was announced on July 21, 2020 against a large real estate title insurer alleging that a design defect in a data management computer program resulted in the exposure over the course of several years of hundreds of millions of documents—millions of which contained sensitive personal information of consumers, including bank account information, mortgage and tax records, Social Security Numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers’ license images.

According to the charges, the company discovered the vulnerability and exposure as a result of penetration testing it conducted in 2018, but then failed on multiple levels to remedy the exposure…

UI to offer state’s first cybersecurity bachelor’s degree | Local

riskacademy — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 07:43:38 +0000

The University of Idaho has announced it will now offer the state’s first cybersecurity bachelor’s degree program through its College of Engineering.

“The Center for Cyber Safety and Education estimates that there’s going to be about 1.2 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs by 2022,” said Alexiss Turner, communication manager for the college. “We’re definitely trying to fill a need — this is something we’ve kind of been leading on for a couple decades.”

Jim Alves-Foss, distinguished professor in computer science and director of the UI’s Center for Secure and Dependable Systems, said he taught the university’s first cybersecurity class in 1992.

In 1999, Alves-Foss said the National Security Agency designated the UI as one of the first seven Centers of Academic Excellence in “Information Assurance Education” — a sector now known simply as “cybersecurity.”

He said it was only a matter of time before the school developed a degree pathway.

“We’ve been teaching cybersecurity classes for years and slowly adding more and…