YPSILANTI – Eastern Michigan University has been recertified through June 2014 for mapping its information assurance courses to National Security Standards � – a step towards getting EMU recertified as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security.
EMU had lost its CAE certification earlier this year through some clerical errors, said Gerald “Skip” Lawver,
Associate Professor, Center for Regional and National Security at EMU. The University is among 93 schools in 37 states and the District of Columbia to attain the designation.
The Information Assurance Courseware Evaluation (IACE) Program re- certified EMU courseware for mapping to Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) National Training Standards that apply to information systems security (INFOSEC) professionals (NSTISSI No. 4011) and systems certifiers (NSTISSI No. 4012).
The reviewer cited this: “Overall, this is a good submission. The University has built some solid courseware that easily maps to the CNSS standards. There is a good mix of lectures, labs, handouts, guest lectures, videos, webinars, projects and exercises which allow the students to have hands-on experience and provides the opportunities for some analytical thinking and problem solving for the students. The Cyberspace Law and Risk Vulnerability Analysis courses provided in this submission also look unique and very interesting. All of the courses will provide these students with a good foundation and appear to stimulate a student’s desire to participate and help address the additional challenges facing this career field. Congratulations to the University for a job well done.”
EMU is moving towards re-certification as a CAE and will re-join the other Universities at its national convention in June 2009.
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