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Subject: [ISN] NSA Teams Up With Colleges to Train Students for Secret Cyber-Ops Jobs
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2012-05-23 11:34:38
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1205230634240.4955 () infosecnews ! org
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By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
May 22, 2012
The National Security Agency is partnering with select universities to
train students in cyber operations for intelligence, military and law
enforcement jobs, work that will remain secret to all but a select group
of students and faculty who pass clearance requirements, according to
Reuters.
The cyber-operations curriculum is part of the Obama administration's
national initiative to improve cybersecurity through education, and is
designed to prepare students for jobs with the U.S. Cyber Command, the
NSA's signals intelligence operations, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and other law enforcement agencies that investigate cyber
crimes.
The U.S. Cyber Command's job is, in part, to support the military in
offensive cyber operations against enemy networks, suggesting the
students would be trained in the methods of hackers.
"We're trying to create more of these, and yes they have to know some of
the things that hackers know, they have to know a lot of other things
too, which is why you really want a good university to create these
people for you," Neal Ziring, technical director at the NSA's
Information Assurance Directorate, told Reuters.
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