TROY ? Walsh College has been re-designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.
Students who attend a school designated as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education can apply for scholarships and grants through the Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program and the Federal Cyber Service Scholarship for Service Program.
At Walsh, 71 students have enrolled in the Master of Science degree in Information Assurance program since it was first offered in 2005. One student is completing his degree with a Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship. Walsh offers Information Assurance as a specialization within the Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Business Information Technology degrees, and as a five-course security certificate.
?This designation means that the Walsh Master of Science degree in Information Assurance continues to map to all current government security curriculum standards,? said Nan Poulios, director of the Walsh College Information Assurance Center.
Four-year colleges and graduate-level universities must apply for and pass rigorous criteria every three years to be designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance. According to the NSA website, the goal of the program is to ?reduce vulnerability in the national information infrastructure by promoting higher education in information assurance (IA) and producing a growing number of professionals with IA expertise in various disciplines.?
The Walsh Information Assurance Center informs and trains organizations in information protection, compliance, and privacy issues. Recently, the Center created an IA consortium of community colleges and county intermediate school districts to offer Cyber Camp programs at Walsh, Poulios said.
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