KALAMAZOO — Western Michigan University is expanding educational opportunities in cybersecurity under a new collaboration with Ann Arbor-based Merit Network Inc., a nonprofit organization providing high-performance computer networking and related services to educational, government, health care, and nonprofit organization.
Under the collaboration, WMU will offer noncredit, online professional development courses in cybersecurity training. Registration for the eight-week course is now open. The first courses start Oct. 22.
The partnership draws on faculty expertise in WMU’s Haworth College of Business and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, as well as the Michigan Cyber Range, a virtual network environment developed by Merit Network Inc. to facilitate safe cybersecurity training.
Alan Rea and Jason Johnson, faculty in cybersecurity, will lead the courses, which combine online learning modules with lab-based experiential learning. Using the Michigan Cyber Range Secure Sandbox, students can practice their skills on real threats without putting their own personal or business network at risk.
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