STEVENS LAUNCHES ONLINE SECURITY CERTIFICATE

[Rodney Petersen <Rodney () UMD EDU>]

As we improve IT security in higher education, there are three primary
areas where higher education is typically regarded as a resource:
1) securing college and university computers and networks,
2) research on IT security, and
3) degree programs in IT security and training/certification of IT
security professionals.

Although the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Security Task Force is principally
concerned with item #1 above, we are very interesting in remaining
apprised of developments in the other two areas.  Below is an
announcement that pertains to item #3.  Please feel free to forward
other news announcements of this kind that might keep us all apprised of
contributions of colleges and universities to the overall cybersecurity
agenda.

Thanks,

Rodney Petersen
Security Task Force Coordinator



STEVENS LAUNCHES ONLINE SECURITY CERTIFICATE

Hoboken, August 6, 2002--Responding rapidly to the global crisis in
computer
and network security, WebCampus, the online unit of Stevens Institute of
Technology, next month will introduce a new four-course online graduate
certificate in CyberSecurity.

Directed by the noted IEEE Fellow Manu Malek, who until recently was a
Distinguished Member of Bell Lab's technical staff, the four-course,
instructor-led program helps industry grapple with increasingly serious
threats to the nation's computer and network infrastructure.

WebCampus students will acquire knowledge of key elements of cyber
security;
among them the ability to authenticate users and provide confidentiality

and
message integrity. Introducing security protocols and attacks and
defenses
against them, the program focuses on information security, inspection,
protection, detection, reaction, and reflection.

The first class to go online this fall, "e-Business Security and
Information
Assurance," explores application, server, and database security.
Reviewing
virtual local area networks (VLAN), it covers secure access, backup and
disaster-recovery techniques. For the financial industry, students
confront
the special needs of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and smartcard
security. Online classes start September 19. The new program parallels
a
previously launched online graduate certificate in Secure Network System
Design directed by Stevens Professor Sumit Ghosh.

Malek, who heads Stevens' CyberSecurity program, was awarded the IEEE
Third
Millennium Medal and is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE
Communications
Society. He was founder and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of
Networked
Systems Management and is the author and editor of seven books.

Stevens offers more than 100 graduate e-learning courses tailored to
suit
the educational goals of employees and companies worldwide. More than
1,000
students have studied in the school's WebCampus online graduate
programs.
Some 40 top-tier global corporations--AT&T, Lucent, ITT, Lockheed
Martin,
Prudential, Salomon Smith Barney, and Verizon, among dozens of
others--provide their employees with Stevens' superior education on
campus,
at corporate sites, and on-line.

Established in 1870, Stevens offers baccalaureate, master's, and
doctoral
degrees in engineering, science, computer science, management, and
technology management, as well as a baccalaureate in the humanities and
liberal arts. With a total enrollment of about 1,600 undergraduates and
2,600 graduate students, the Hoboken, NJ, university offers pioneering
curriculum with a focus on applied research, helping to solve real-world
industrial and environmental problems. Stevens is accredited by the
Middle
States Commission on Higher Education.

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For more information, contact:
Robert Ubell, Dean, Online Learning, at (201) 216-5084 or by e-mail at
rubell () stevens-tech edu
WebCampus is at www.webcampus.stevens.edu

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