1. Center for Cybersecurity Research and Education (CCRE)
Tommy Morris, PhD
Director and Associate Professor

2. Outline
What us CCRE?
Center of Academic Excellence for 2 Year Programs
Helpful resources for curriculum development
Cybersecurity professional certificate programs
Gencyber
Matriculation into a 4 year university
Cybercorps: Scholarship for Service

3. Tommy Morris
PHD, Computer Engineering (Cybersecurity), Southern Methodist University
17 Texas Instruments
chip design and verification
7 Mississippi State University
Director, Critical Infrastructure Protection Center
Associate Director, Distributed Analytics and Security Institute (research lead)
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

4. UAH CCRE Mission
To provide cybersecurity research as a service for local, state, and national industry and government, develop first class cybersecurity education programs, and provide a pipeline of trained cybersecurity scientists and engineers.
Actionable solutions
Practical approach
Strong team
Hard problems

5. UAH Cybersecurity
NSA/DHS Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Cyber Defense
NSA/DHS Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research
NSF Cyber Corp Scholarship for Service
15 students currently on scholarship
BS, MS, Phd; Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems
Internship and service obligations

6. People Social Psychology of Cybersecurity Cyber wargaming
Intrusion detection
Cyber physical systems
Industrial control systems
Cloud security
Secure software development
Penetration testing
Critical decision making
Disaster Response
Risk management
Access control
Embedded systems
Provenance
Assurance
Data mining
Machine learning
Big data

7. CAE2Y NSA/DHS Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education
CAE2Y – certification for 2 year degree programs
regionally accredited two-year community colleges
technical schools
CAE2Y – certifies your program and aligns your curriculum with a standard

8. CAE2Y Requirements Requirements
Cyber Defense Center establishment and maintenance
Oversee program, physical or virtual center, center website
Cyber Defense program of study
Toward degree or certificate
Student development
Cyber Defense faculty
Outreach
Knowledge Unit mapping

9. CAE2Y Knowledge Units - Core
Basic Data Analysis
Basic Scripting or Introductory Programming
Cyber Defense
Cyber Threats
Fundamental Security Design Principles
IA Fundamentals
Intro to Cryptography
IT Systems Components
Networking Concepts
Policy, Legal, Ethics, and Compliance
System Administration
For each knowledge unit NSA provides a brief set of topics which should be included.

10. CAE2Y Knowledge Units - optional
There are optional knowledge units
May be mapped to other certificate programs
May target individual job functions or certifications for the local job market
Too many to put on a slide
Each KU has a accompanying set of sub-topics

11. Helpful websites National CyberWatch Center CAE Community
Provides a guide for mapping curriculum to the knowledge units.
47-page guide
CAE Community
Website developed by CAE participating schools.
More information. Forums.

12. NICE Framework National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE)
Common understanding of and lexicon for cybersecurity work.
Gives an overview of the types of jobs available in the cybersecurity field.
There is a mapping of NSA/DHS CAE knowledge units to the NICE framework.

13. Certificate programs
Many government cybersecurity positions require an applicant to have a set of certifications
Many organizations teach to these certifications
Short course (professional development)
Program of study which culminates is skills needed to pass a certificate exam
Entry level: Security+, Network+, GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC), Certified Computer Examiner (CCE)
Advanced: Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

14. Certificate Program Popularity
Number of citations from survey of job postings:

15. Certificate Programs
Most certificate programs require a student to pass an exam.
Program websites provide
Training materials
Practice exams

16. Gencyber Camps
Gencyber is a program sponsored by NSA and NSF to provide free cybersecurity camps for
Teachers – how to teach cybersecurity
high school & middle school students
Cybersecurity first principles (basic concepts)
Introduce cybersecurity
Motivate students to pursue cybersecurity degrees

17. Matriculation
Hopefully community college cybersecurity students continue their education at UAH.
Scholarship opportunities
Map to a Bachelors of Science
What to expect at UAH

18. What expect at UAH UAH offers 3 B.S. degrees related to cybersecurity
Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Information Systems
At undergrad level students will take electives in cybersecurity.
There are cybersecurity certificate programs available.

19. Cybercorps Scholarship for Service $20,000 per 9 months
Two years full scholarship
Plus salary for undergrads!!!!!
$20,000 per 9 months
Internships at gov’t agency required
Service obligation
UAH is a Cybercorps school!

20. Contact Information
Tommy Morris, PhD Director, Center for Cybersecurity Research and Education Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alabama in Huntsville Work: (256) Cell: (256)