Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance
The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) designated Syracuse University as a national Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Information Assurance Education (IAE) and as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance - Research. Syracuse University was first designated as a CAE-IAE in 2001 when it joined other prestigious universities such as Carnegie Mellon and Stanford in this honor. SU was re-designated in 2004 and in 2007 for an additional five years. It received designation in information assurance research in 2009. The designation status is valid for a period of five academic years.
The School of Information Studies, the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications have collaborated to promote interdisciplinary education in information assurance. Faculty and staff members involved in this include work include the School of Information Studies’ Scott Bernard, Jeff Stanton, Joon Park, Michelle Kaarst-Brown, and Bruce Kingma.
To be named a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance, an institution must meet IA courseware standards defined by the Information Assurance Courseware Evaluation (IACE) Program. These standards are determined by the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS). The IACE certifies that the institution complies with all requirements that apply to its specific courseware set of instruction. As an IACE certified institution, Syracuse University meets the national training and education standards for Information Systems Security Professionals, Senior Systems Managers, System Administrators, Information Systems Security Officers, System Certifiers, and Risk Analysts.