Cyber Defense Exercise (CDX)
Approaches for 2010!
Click
here to view an NSA-produced
video on what the Cyber
Defense Exercise (CDX) is all
about. Sign up for
CS3920 Topics in Computer
Science (0-2).
Meeting time: TBD.
Scholarships for Federal Cyber
Service Corp
"NPS offers free
ride, hard work - Scholarships
available" - posted in the
Monterey County Herald, 05 Dec
2009. Click
here for a copy of the
article.
"New
scholarship program to promote
cyber security in civilian
workforce" - posted in the
Californian.com, 11 Nov 2009.
Click
here for a copy of the
article.
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NPS Participates in NSA's 8th
annual Cyber Defense Exercise
2009
This year’s ninth annual CDX
is dubbed, “Realistic Network
Defense in a Hostile World.”
NPS’ own cyber security team has
designed, built and defended
computer networks against
simulated intrusions by the
National Security Agency/Central
Security Service Red Team. The
competition is designed to
foster education and awareness
among future military leaders
about the role of information
assurance in protecting the
nation’s critical information
systems. Schools are assessed on
their abilities to maintain
network services while detecting
and responding to network
security intrusions and
compromises. The stiff
competition includes the five
service academies (Military,
Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force and
Merchant Marine), the Air Force
Institute of Technology, and for
the first time a foreign school,
the Royal Military College of
Canada, has joined in the fierce
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NPS Receives Prestigious
National Information Assurance
Dual Designation
The National Security Agency (NSA)
and Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) have announced
the designation of the Naval
Postgraduate School as an
Information Assurance (IA)
Center for Academic
Excellence-Research (CAE-R) for
the academic years 2009-2015.
The CAE-Research designation
recognizes academic institutions
that actively integrate research
activities into their curricula.
Click
here to read the full
article on the NPS website. |
NPS Information Assurance
Program Receives Certification
as one of Best in USA
NPS Program Meets All
National Standards
Monterey, CA - The Committee
of National Security Systems (CNSS),
under the National Security
Agency's (NSA) Information
Assurance Courseware Evaluation
Program, has certified that the
Naval Postgraduate School
information assurance program is
among the most rigorous in the
nation. The NPS curriculum
designed by the school's Center
for Information Systems Security
and Research (CISR) meets and
exceeds the National Training
Standard for Information
Security Professionals (NSTISSI
4011) along with four additional
training standards, placing it
the top tier of information
assurance programs.
(Click here
for more)
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NPS Participates in NSA's
7th annual Cyber Defense
Exercise 2008
"Naval Postgraduate
School students wage
4-day battle" - See the
full article in:
Information Warfare
Monitor (external
website)
"NPS Hones Cyber Defense
Skills During CDX 2008"
- 07 May 2008. Click
here to read the
full article on the NPS
website.
"One Breach is Too Many
in Cyber Warfare" -
posted in the Monterey
County Herald, 29 Apr
2008. Click
here for a copy of
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OPM Director Kay Coles James Gives Federal Agencies Flexibility in IT Hiring to Support Information Security Efforts
U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Kay Coles James recently issued a memorandum to heads of agencies and departments and chief human capital officers notifying them of the hiring flexibility available for Information Technology (IT) positions.
(Click
here for more)
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NPS Participates in NSA's Cyber Defense
Exercise 2002
"Cyberwar games: Cadets
hone their skills" - 26 April
2002. See the full article
in:
CNET News
(external website) or
click
here for a copy of the article.
"MONTEREY,
Calif.--Systems administrator
David Riebrandt's first hint
that intruders had hacked the
military network came from
telltale electronic footprints.
From the logs--electronic
records of the information
passed on the network--it
quickly became
evident that a server with
gate-keeping control over
different parts of the system
was getting
downright chatty with a foreign
computer via the Internet..." |
SFS Community Outreach Project
The Community Outreach Project seeks to bring awareness of computer security issues to the community. We offer a variety of presentations on security topics of interest to business, government entities, schools, nonprofit organizations and individuals. Topics range from Email in the Age of Spam and Viruses to Security and Your Organization. Community Outreach can also develop a presentation specifically tailored for your organization. For more information, please contact: CISRContact@nps.edu
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EVENTS |
Upcoming IA Conferences and
Workshops
Theory of Cryptography
Conference
February 9-11, 2010, Zurich,
Switzerland
http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~tcc/
Network & Distributed System
Security Symposium
February 28-March 3, 2010,
San Diego, California, USA
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/10/
RSA Conference
March 1-5, 2010, San Francisco,
California, USA
http://www.rsaconference.com/index.htm
IEEE Symposium on Security and
Privacy
May 16-19, 2010, Oakland,
California, USA
http://oakland31.cs.virginia.edu/
Communication and Information
Systems Security
May 23-27, 2010, Cape Town,
South Africa
http://cms.comsoc.org/eprise/main/SiteGen/ICC_2010/Content/CIS.html
Eurocrypt 2010
May 30-June 3, 2010, Nice,
France
http://crypto.rd.francetelecom.com/events/eurocrypt2010/
Annual Symposium on Information
Assurance
June 16-17, 2010, Albany,
New York, USA
http://www.albany.edu/iasymposium/
Secrypt International Conference
on Security and Cryptography
July 26-28, 2010, Athens, Greece
http://secrypt.icete.org/
USENIX Security Symposium
August 11-13,
2010, Washington, DC, USA
http://www.usenix.org/events/sec10/
Crypto 2010
August 15-19,
2010, Santa Barbara, California, USA
http://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2010/
CISR Invited
Lecture Series
The Invited Lecture Series
injects commercial and military
relevance into the CISR
activities. Leading experts in
the field of computer science
and Information Security from
government, academe, and
industry address the students,
staff, and faculty. Most
lectures are either videotaped
or cassette recorded for later
distribution and/or reference.
Please check here regularly
for our next invited lecture.
Also, please review our
Lecturer Archive
Next Lecture:
TBD
Past Events
Please check out: DARPA / WECS7 / WECS6 / WECS5 / WISE3
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