Professor Mark Schmidt (second from the left) accepts the Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cybersecurity recertification award on behalf of St. Cloud State, along with members from the National Security Agency. Submitted photo
St. Cloud State University has again earned national recognition for the quality of its information assurance programming.
The university has secured recertification as a National Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense from the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The certification recognizes that the university offers courses that meet NSA and DHS criteria. It gives the university’s Center for Information Assurance Studies national recognition for its information assurance programs and means it is eligible to apply for the federal Information Assurance Scholarship Program, which it last received in 2013.
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Professor Mark Schmidt show information assurance students the functions of a computer forensics workstation. St. Cloud State purchased the equipment with a $83,000 federal Information Assurance Scholarship Program grant. Photo by Anna Kurth
St. Cloud State offers an information technology security undergraduate program and information assurance graduate program through the Center for Information Assurance Studies, which is run jointly by Herberger Business School’s Information Systems Department and the College of Science and Engineering’s Computer Networking and Applications Department.
The NSA and DHS will recognize St. Cloud State for the honor at a ceremony in June.
