Education
One of ITI's strategic goals is the continued design, development, and use of trustworthy computer systems. In support of these efforts, ITI engages in serveral education-related activities:
- NSA/DHS National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NACE-C):
- UIUC has held the CAE-Cyber Defense designation since 2000 and CAE-Research since 2008. More on the ITI Center for Cyber Defense Education and Research here: https://iti.illinois.edu/education/nsa-center-cyber-defense-education-and-research.
- Scholarship for Service (SFS):
- ITI has participated in the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded SFS program for 10+ years under the brand Illinois Cyber Security Scholars Program (ICSSP). More on the ICSSP here: https://iti.illinois.edu/education/illinois-cyber-security-scholars-program-icssp.
- Cyber-Related Engineering:
- Technical: ITI works with faculty from many of the University's Grainger College of Engineering programs - Electrical and Computer Engineering, Civil, Computer Science - doing rigorous and deeply technical research and development in core areas such as architectures, security mechanisms/functionality, assurance, and operations. ITI also partners with faculty across the University’s various colleges (Education, Business, Information School) in areas focused on analysis, financial, and psychology.
- Courses:
- ITI had developed and teaches various credit-based UIUC security-specific courses (CS 460/ECE 419: Security Laboratory; CS 461/ECE 422: Computer Security I; ENG 298: Foundational Technical and Organizational Concepts and Practices in Cybersecurity; IS 234: Introduction to Risk and Cybersecurity), as well guest lecturing in other UIUC classes (e.g., ACCY 574: Risk Management and Innovation).