NSA Prepares Students for Cyber-Ops
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The National Security Agency (NSA) seeks a new cyber-ops program at selected universities.
The cyber-ops curriculum is to provide the basic education for jobs in intelligence, military and law enforcement that are so secret they will only be revealed to some students and faculty.
Before electing the candidates, which most probably are very few since they must be skilled at internet and hacking, they need to pass security clearance requirements during special summer seminars offered by NSA.
Neal Ziring, the technical director at the agency's Information Assurance Directorate said "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."
NSA supposedly has two main missions: to protect US government computer networks and to collect foreign intelligence through electronic means like satellites and decode it.
Of 20 universities that applied, only four received this week the new designation of Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations: Dakota State University, Naval Postgraduate School, Northeastern University and University of Tulsa.
Out of 10 requirements, the two most lacking at many schools were courses on "reverse engineering" - or how to gain knowledge of a technology or product to reproduce it - and cellular communications and mobile technologies, NSA officials said.
According to sources, cyber-operation might involve altering computer systems to work to one's advantage and doing that "without being seen or without it being obvious that I was changing the inner workings of the operating system."
Source: News agencies
The National Security Agency (NSA) seeks a new cyber-ops program at selected universities.
The cyber-ops curriculum is to provide the basic education for jobs in intelligence, military and law enforcement that are so secret they will only be revealed to some students and faculty.
Before electing the candidates, which most probably are very few since they must be skilled at internet and hacking, they need to pass security clearance requirements during special summer seminars offered by NSA.
Neal Ziring, the technical director at the agency's Information Assurance Directorate said "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."
NSA supposedly has two main missions: to protect US government computer networks and to collect foreign intelligence through electronic means like satellites and decode it.
Of 20 universities that applied, only four received this week the new designation of Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations: Dakota State University, Naval Postgraduate School, Northeastern University and University of Tulsa.
Out of 10 requirements, the two most lacking at many schools were courses on "reverse engineering" - or how to gain knowledge of a technology or product to reproduce it - and cellular communications and mobile technologies, NSA officials said.
According to sources, cyber-operation might involve altering computer systems to work to one's advantage and doing that "without being seen or without it being obvious that I was changing the inner workings of the operating system."
Source: News agencies
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