With a rise in cyber attacks and the growing demand for cybersecurity professionals, San Diego State University is seeking a founding faculty director to lead the university’s new Cybersecurity Center for Academic Excellence. The new center will offer cybersecurity workforce development and research ...
Approx. total program cost, out-of-state U.S. residents$38,700 The University of San Diego's part-time cybersecurity engineering degree lasts 20 months and requires 30 credits to graduate. Applicants must submit a letter of support from their employer or two reference letters, and the school...
according to industry expert Cybersecurity Ventures. There have also been several recent attacks on San Diego’s local agencies and institutions, including Scripps Health, the Port of San Diego, the City of San Marcos and UC San Diego Health. ...
As part of a new partnership, the San Diego State University Cyber Security and Intelligence Club and Haiku Inc. are expanding hands-on cybersecurity training tools available to students. Using Haiku Inc.’s “Games that Train,” critical testing and feedback on tactics, tools, and procedures ...
San Diego State University (SDSU) has launched a suite of online cyber security certificates and a new academy, the SDSU Cyber Tech Academy, to thwart the growing threat of cyber attacks. In affiliation with theGraduate Program in Homeland Security, the certificate program has been beta-tested ...
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently became aware of a cybersecurity incident affecting its systems and data that may have exposed the personal information of current and former Federal employees. Beginning June 8 and continuing through June 19, 2015, OPM will be sending email...
Qubitekk, a San Diego startup, will receive a $3 million grant from the Department of Energy to speed the development of unhackable quantum encryption technology to protect the country’s power grid from cyber attack. Under the DOE’s Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems program, the natio...
Urgent need for skills: Professionals with these skills are most immediately needed: cybersecurity, cloud security, virtualization, cloud computing, and wireless network management. Challenges remain: 80 percent of San Diego IT hiring managers report challenges finding skilled IT talent. The hardest area...
In addition to transfer agreements with four-year universities, the district is emphasizing career education programs that prepare students for good-paying jobs in fields such as health care, biotech, welding, and IT/cybersecurity. The SDCCD is San Diego’s largest provider of workforce training an...
SPAWAR directly employs nearly half of all the cybersecurity jobs in San Diego and its presence in San Diego is a huge contributing factor for many cyber companies to remain located in San Diego, and its expansive research facilities and cutting-edge laboratories located in Point Loma are a uni...