LC Smith to be honored for cybersecurity career training program
The L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science will be honored the week of Dec. 5 as one of the leading cybersecurity programs in the nation as part of Minorities in National Security and Cybersecurity Awareness Week.
DiversityGPS.com will recognize L.C. Smith for the training available to students embarking on cybersecurity careers, according to an Oct. 25 Syracuse University news release.
‘Syracuse was one of the top of a very small list,’ said Richard Butler, senior manager for DiversityGPS.com. ‘We want to identify organizations of choice to help recruiting for cybersecurity programs.’
DiversityGPS.com is an online magazine that compiles information and news from U.S. Black Engineer & Information Technology, Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology, Women of Color and Science Spectrum magazines.
‘LCS will be among a select number of colleges and universities featured in the Homeland Security Edition of U.S. Black Engineer & IT magazine,’ said Cory Tartier, university representative for DiversityGPS.com. ‘The accomplishment will be published and featured in magazines specifically geared toward science, technology and engineering.’
Eight editors for DiversityGPS.com did extensive research on all the cybersecurity programs in the nation, Tartier said. They plan on honoring L.C. Smith and others during the cybersecurity week, which will serve as an opportunity to recognize the innovative leaders in cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity involves measures taken to protect computers and computer networks from accidental or malicious harm. Faults are constantly identified, updated and corrected to make the network stronger. This situation is often temporary as other weaknesses in the system are eventually detected and exploited.
Cybersecurity has become increasingly important due to the amount and kind of information stored on computers.
Telecommunications, energy, banking and finance, transportation, water systems and emergency services, both government and private, are some of the cybersecurity considered essential to economic and government operations, according to the Clinton Administration’s Policy on Critical Infrastructure Protection: Presidential Decision Directive 63. Cybersecurity was as essential to the functioning of the United States as water supplies and vital to U.S. national interests, according to the policy paper.
The nature of the Internet makes cybersecurity an increasingly important issue. Most computers on a network use the same systems, so a few operating systems control a large number of computers. An attacker who can find a security flaw in a single computer could gain access to many computers that are networked to a system.
Because of this, in November 2002, the Cyber Security Research and Development Act was passed, which dedicates nearly $900 million to the establishment of cybersecurity research.
Published on November 9, 2010 at 12:00 pm
